Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Building Websites with ASP.NET

Visual Studio 2010 provides a rich set of tools and controls for the web developer. It supports standard controls for building server-side ASP.NET and emitting standard HTML. Controls include labels, text boxes, buttons, and related data-entry controls. In addition, there are controls for validation, working with data, doing personalization with Web Parts, and managing the user process with the login controls.

You create an ASP.NET site in Visual Studio by either creating a new website (File, New, Web Site) or by selecting the ASP.NET Web Application template in the New Project dialog. The website template should be used to create projects that mimic basic, file-centric websites. This typically means all files (your ...