How to change a Visual Studio 2005 class project to a web project

I tend to create new Visual Studio projects using the class library template, then make it into what I want. Sometimes, what I want is a web project. Through the project properties view, you can change a project between a class library, windows application, or console application with ease — but there’s no easy way [...]

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WebForms and alternatives: You can’t convince everyone

Since starting with MonoRail some months ago, I’ve joined the bandwagon touting its benefits over Web Forms. Part of my advocacy was to convince the developers who help me out with my online baseball game, CSFBL (which will be rewritten using MonoRail).
In a discussion on our BaseCamp site, one of those developers, Rick, said this. [...]

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Yet another comparison of MonoRail vs WebForms

It seems everyone is writing about the differences between MonoRail and WebForms these days. Not to be left out, I’ll throw a few of my own comments into the mix.
I think that one’s attraction (or hatred) of MonoRail or ASP.Net’s WebForms is based on their programming background. (At least, it is in my case, and [...]

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MonoRail vs Web Client Software Factory (WCSF)

There’s a little flurry of activity going around comparing Castle MonoRail to the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF). Here’s a synopsis.

David Hayden, who admittedly is very familiar with WCSF and not very familiar with MonoRail, touts the future of WCSF and the concerns about the lack of resources working on MonoRail in order for it [...]

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Microsoft OKs community development of CSS Friendly Control Adapters

Back in late 2006, I modified Microsoft’s CSS Friendly ASP.Net 2.0 Control Adapters to be distributable as a single DLL. Since that time, the code I wrote was downloaded from this web site, and everything seemed good, at least until the server crashed. After being prodded by a few people in the ASP.Net community, I [...]

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