Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ships a new ASP.Net Web Application template for .Net 4.0 projects which includes additional content for getting up and running quickly with Forms Authentication, Master Pages, User Registration etc. However, this Project Template is missing from .Net 3.5! Therefore, if you want to use this template in .Net 3.5, you have to change the Target Framework version to .Net 3.5 and then perform any additional operations on the project and solution file to get everything to work. What a hassle!! In addition, as most developers already know, the original version of jQuery that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 is sadly outdated. The most recent version of jQuery (as of this writing) is v. 1.7.2. Therefore, this requires developers to install the NuGet package and then update to the latest and greatest version of jQuery. In addition, if you are not using the older version of jQuery, this also requires you to clean up and delete the old jQuery files from the project. This project template is customized for ASP.Net 3.5 and also includes the most current version of jQuery (v. 1.7.2). This should save developers that have not yet upgraded their projects to ASP.Net 4.0/.Net 4.0 a significant number of hours in tweaking the default Visual Studio 2010 project template to get it to work on .Net 3.5. |