In this article, Brian Myers explains how and why he upgraded an existing real-world Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET) project created with Visual Studio 2003 (VS2003) and SQL Server 2000 to a new Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) project along with SQL Server 2005. The first part of this article explores in general terms the reasons behind the decision to upgrade an existing production application. Brian also describes the main issues he encountered while upgrading both the VB .NET project and the database, and he identifies features of the new project structure within VS2005.
The second part of this article looks in more detail at two of the features that contributed to the motivation to upgrade this project: the new GridView control and support for encryption of configuration files.
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