Create a website using Visual Studio 2005 Express

As a professional .Net developer, I do have access for MS Visual Studio tools from version 2001 to 2008. However, I choose to using Visual Studio express version to develop my personal website in order to avoid the license issue. What's more, I believe that VS express can meet my requirement for my website, which is a multi tier Service oriented .Net web application.

The web site supports both SQL Server and MySQl through a data access tier, which is class library developed using Visual C# express 2005. The class library is consumed by Asp.Net application developed using Visual Web Express 2005 and parked at a sub domain with a sole goal to provide service to my main Asp.Net application. Another class library is then developed to provide an API that provide all functions to make use of the web service. And my main .Net application is build on top of the We Service API.

So I could make use of the VS Express 2005 tools to generate a complete, AJAX rich ASP.Net application very conveniently. Of course I can not take advantage of the newest technology such as CSLA, Entity Framework, CAB, etc that I am using frequently at work, but I found the basic technology is effective enough to develop a real ASP.Net website.

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