posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:52 PM
by
thomasswilliams
My ASP.NET 2.0 Project is now underway
I finally started on my new project using ASP.NET 2.0 and Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005. I'm using an older Pentium 3/512MB RAM machine that I had sitting around which has performed adequately, but I literally can't wait to use Visual Studio - a known memory hog - on my main development machine, a Pentium 4 2.8GHz Hyper Threading machine with 1GB of RAM.
Beta 2 has worked OK for me, and depending on what I'm working on I experience 1 or 2 "The Visual Basic compiler needs to restart - no work has been lost"-type messages a day. Sometimes it's easier if I restart Visual Studio, and thankfully I have never lost any work while this is happening, which is A Good Thing. The number of restarts goes up if I work in the App_Code folder for some reason, although in fairness it might be my setup or even the RAM which is impacting this.
Visual Studio 2005 has a lot of out-of-the box components and a number of "themes" to aid in a modern-looking user interface, yet a strange pull from my old ASP-classic days steers me towards CSS and hand-crafted HTML...so I've been looking around at free ways I can dress up the UI, especially knowing that I am not a graphics designer. I am considering whether I should recommend to my boss to purchase an interface library like ComponentArt or Infragistics, but in the meantime I have to make do with free stuff.
One or two things I want to bookmark for later on: