Question

I have an open-source code for a secured login portal written on the asp.net 3.5 framework. If I have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (vb), will I be able to use this source code, and will VS update the necessary coding? In other words, can I just plug the pages into my VS solution and be all set, or do I have more work to do? Thanks!

Answer 1

Will VS update the necessary code? Yes. Follow this guideline to upgrade your application from 2.0, 2.5, or 3.5 to 4.0.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd483478.aspx

However there will be one major change and that is your web.config file. It will look totally different.

While your 3.5 web config file can have hundreds of lines of code, your 4.0 file could look like this

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <configuration>
        <system.web>
            <compilation targetFramework="4.0" /> 
        </system.web>
    </configuration>

and thats it. You will have to configure your machine.config.file which will contain a lot of the settings from your 3.5 file. But the guidelines will explain this.