I used to use MS Visual Web Development (VWD) Express 2008 as IDE for a website which was developed on .NET framework 2.5 with VB.NET and runs on IIS 7 originally. About a year ago, MS stopped downloading the VWD Express 2008 and now I am in need of an IDE for my old VB.NET website. Which IDE will allow me to maintain this old VB.NET website?

Here is the detail info of VS 2019 community installed:

CodePudding user response：

VS 2017 is the last one that

However, this might ONLY be a web site project. So, you can use this option:

So, I would certinly try to open the project (folder) where the site exists, and see if you can find a .sln file.

If there is no .sln file, then you can try to open the .vbproj file.

But if you open a "web site", then you ONLY select the folder where the web site exists. (you don't open .sln, or .vbproj file - but open the FOLDER.