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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB
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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB

by Imar Spaanjaars
March 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
766 pages
21h 15m
English
Wrox
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2.1. Creating Web Sites with VWD 2008

The previous chapter gave you a quick overview of creating a web site in VWD. You simply chose New Web Site from the File menu, selected the standard ASP.NET Web Site template, selected a language, and clicked OK. However, there's more to the New Web Site dialog box than you saw in the previous chapter. You may have noticed that you can choose from a number of different templates that allow you to create different kind of sites. But before you look at the different templates on which you can base your new web site, you need to know a little more about the different project types that are available in VWD.

2.1.1. Different Project Types

Depending on the version of VWD you're using, you may have the choice between two different project types. If you're using Visual Web Developer Express Edition you only have one option: Web Site Projects. If you're using one of the commercial versions of Visual Studio 2008, you also have the option to create a new Web Application Project. Both project types are discussed next.

2.1.1.1. Web Site Projects

Web Site Projects represent a project in VWD for a web site. You create a new Web Site Project by choosing File New Web Site or File New Web Site from Visual Web Developer's main menu.

Web Site Projects were ...

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