VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released

OK, so the odds that you read my blog and not Scott Guthrie’s are pretty low, especially if you have any interest in this topic.  However, Scott just announced that the VS 2005 Web Application Project has gone V1.0.  I had the pleasure of talking with Scott recently and to take a look at this – I have to say that I am incredibly impressed.  It’s like all the goodness of a standard Visual Studio 2005 web project with all of the benefits of the old Visual Studio 2003 way and then some.  For those of you with complicated automated build processes I would definitely go take a look at this way of doing web projects – if you are using Team Build in VSTS then I would definitely use it. 

It’s stuff like this that is blowing me away – just how open Microsoft Developer Division are being at the moment.  I have to say I really like the new way of working, I hope that it is sustainable and they don’t have to retreat to their previous ways of working.  Being a developer right now is a very exciting time.