Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, Second Edition

Using Visual Web Developer

The first step in learning how to use this tool is, obviously, starting it up. Access

Start > All Programs > Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. You’ll

be welcomed by a page that looks something like the one shown in Figure 5.2.

Let’s start by creating a new web site. Select File > New Web Site…, or click the

Web Site… link next to the Create label.

In the dialog that appears, which is shown in Figure 5.3, select the ASP.NET Web

Site template, choose the web site’s default language, and identify the location

at which the web site should be created. Feel free to choose the language with

which you feel most comfortable, and remember that you can choose different

languages for use in different files, so if you’re not sure which language is your

favorite just yet, don’t worry. For the location, create a folder named Dorknozzle

located in the WebDocs folder you’ve been working with so far. You can create

this folder by entering its path into the Location field. If you placed WebDocs in

the root folder of C:\, the location will be C:\WebDocs\Dorknozzle.

Figure 5.3. Creating a new web site project

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Using Visual Web Developer