Comments on: Opening .NET 2.0 Web Application Projects in Visual Studio 2008

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:26:05 +0000

I have my project developed in VS2003 and wanted to upgrade to VS2008. When i run the migration tool, it runs successfully without taking any time but under solution the project is not loaded. I’m not sure what i’m doing wrong. Can anyone tell me steps to migrate a VS2003 web application to VS2008?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:45:52 +0000

Thanks – this was the problem I was having – in fact this fixes the supposed “work-around” whereby you instruct visual studio to NOT use IIS. For a while I was doing this, and using 'Custom Server URL' to point to my application on my local server. This is what should be done ^
Thanks again

By: abc

abc — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:11:19 +0000

I had terrible problems with this issue. If you need to run with IIS instead of the Development Server, check your IIS settings for the website. In IIS, on the “Bindings” screen make sure that the “host name” field is set to blank. If the host name value set to anything else (including “localhost”) Visual Studio 2008 will have problems loading the project. Host name must be blank in IIS.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:29 +0000

thanks man, solved my problem

By: lkthoma

lkthoma — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:00:05 +0000

This was a great solution to an annoying issue. Your site was the only one I could google and get a straightforward solution!

By: lkthoma

lkthoma — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:05 +0000

This was a great solution to an annoying issue. Your site was the only one I could google and get a straightforward solution!

By: Stefan Totoescu

Stefan Totoescu — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:57:44 +0000

Great tip! Solved my conversion problem instantly. Thanks!

By: Stefan Totoescu

Stefan Totoescu — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:44 +0000

Great tip! Solved my conversion problem instantly. Thanks!

By: Locarno

Locarno — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:56:10 +0000

Doesn’t this solution cause your properties -> web settings to revert to “Use Visual Studio Development Server”, and thus you can no longer debug using IIS?

By: Locarno

Locarno — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:56:10 +0000

Doesn’t this solution cause your properties -> web settings to revert to “Use Visual Studio Development Server”, and thus you can no longer debug using IIS?