ASP.NET Still Sucks

I seriously still hate ASP.NET. In fact, I think I may be altogether done with it. I installed Visual Studio .NET 2005. At installation, for the C# language option, it tells you that the language installation is required for developing Windows applications in C#, but for Web applications you need only the separate Web Developer component. So I installed just the Web Developer component. Then I tried to open my existing C# project. VS.NET informed me that I didn’t have the correct language tool installed. Hmm, that’s funny, but not in a ha-ha kind of way. Okay, install the C# language option.

Then after upgrading my project to work with the new project format (backup first? Nah, live on the edge), I opened my project and made a few code changes. I compiled my project the way I always did with VS.NET 2003. Only now, there’s nothing in the /bin directory. No convenient assembly files awaiting their destiny in production – nothing. That was unexpected. In VS.NET 2005, apparently they’ve changed the deployment option, so that there can be many assemblies. Maybe there’s some way to have it treat my project like it did in 2003, but if so, I haven’t found it yet.

With ASP.NET, I’ve so far found that the IDE is much more of a hindrance than a help. It’s something to be fought with, despised, and ultimately acquiesced to. But I don’t have the energy anymore. I’m sure that for some people, ASP.NET is wonderful. I’m not one of them. I’m done trying to learn ASP.NET or Visual Studio. It’s not worth the time or the stress. Now, I've got a site to rewrite.