ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies®

3.1. Creating the DVD Web Project

In this section, you create a Web site project, add files and folders to it, and build the pages.

NOTE

This chapter assumes that you installed and tweaked your environment as described in Chapter 2. If something seems to be missing (like SQL Server Express), refer to the preceding chapter for the installation and configuration instructions.

Follow these steps to create the JulieDVD Web project:

1. In Visual Web Developer, choose FileNew Web Site.

2. In the New Web Site dialog box, select the Empty Web Site template, as shown in Figure 3-1.

   This time, you start the site with no files and build everything from scratch.

   Figure 3-1. Starting a project based on the Empty Web Site template.

   

3. Set Location to File System, and Language to Visual Basic.

4. In the Location box on the right, type the name of a new directory (for example, c:\JulieDVD, as used in Figure 3-1) or browse to an existing directory to store the project.

5. Click OK.

Don't include spaces or punctuation in folder or filenames in Web applications. Although the Web server and browser might allow them, files with nonalphabetic characters can be hard to use.