There is a conversion wizard that updates the .net guts of the project itself. Then the next time you build your project, Visual Studio lets you know what code needs to be updated.  It doesn’t do everything for you, but I’m not aware of any IDEs that are this helpful when it comes to porting legacy code.

While the porting process wasn’t too bad, getting IIS and ASP.NET setup and running was sort of a fubar.

1. IIS didn’t like that I have Apache running
2. After turning off Apache, IIS complained about a metabase problem
3. Tried fixing with the MetaAcl Tool
4. Googled around and found my fix “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -i”
5. Next I couldn’t debug because my project was built as a Release
6. Changed to debug then had to clear out my .net framework temp folder
7. Rinse and repeat windows voodoo, now I’m debugging

The jury is still out on how much I miss asp.net. It sure beats the hell out of PHP.  But then again, I’ve got my PHP chops back and I’m really enjoying the simplicity and speed which I can crank smallish things out.