So I now have a fully operational 5.02 instalation at http://localhost/

Anyone know the procedure for hooking that up to VS 2008.  (I find plenty of references for doing a new setup, but not for doing it at root on an existing installation.)

I'm hoping it's as simple as adding the root website into the project, but I suspect there is more to it then that.

I originally developed the site under the full install with source.  Although for maintenance/upgrade/security reasons I have no intention of altering the source, I like the ability to step into the source and see what's going on.  The current full install package is missing part of the modules folder so I'm going to hold off on that for now.  Setting that back up looks like it might take a bit of work. 

I'm primarily a desktop developer so my familiarity with the web stuff is limited.  But I can get the site to open and load correctly by opening it from the Local IIS store in VS.  But, it won't compile, looks like the numerous upgrades have left some legacy code behind that I will need to remove.  Installing a starterkit site under the root also creates some problems.  For some reason VS tries to parse the config from the root website.  IIS also adds some printer folders that VS chokes on when loading.  I have to step through a ton of errors every time I open the solution.  I can remove them, but IIS recreates them.

Looks like any way I go on this I'm in for a bit of work.  Your solution will probably work the best for now.  I may just scrap the root site and do a fresh install of a 5.0 site in a subdirectory.  I'm thinking that might just be the easiest way to go.  Thanks for your feedback.