Totally backwards!

I just discovered that Upgrading VS 2005 Web Site Projects to be VS 2005 Web Application Projects is a totally backwards procedure, as described in this blog. I just don't understand why this is so hard procedure, and why the "Convert to Web Application" context menu is available when you have already converted the project to web application, and it not an available menu for web sites.

Migrating to ASP.NET 2.0... from a Class Library project

See this blog post

Failed installations

To cleanup after failed installations (especially C:\Windows\Installer) you can use

MsiZap G!

Or alternatively download "Windows Installer Cleanup Utility" to do that using GUI.

MSBuild and Web Site projects

One of the developers found an interesting misfeature of the MSBuild. When you supply Project Name parameter it does not package the web site and does not create PrecompiledWeb folder. However as soon as you remove this parameter the folder gets created. Weird.