I have a rather large Web Application that I began to create using the "Web Projects" solution type in Visual Studio.
I now have a need to incorporate some legacy VB.NET into the application, but low and behold you cannot mix languages using the "web project" model. I have to use what is referred to as projectless development (which is basically just a single folder for the entire website).
Any idea on how I can covert a project to a projectless model?
I hope this makes sense...
Creating a web-site from a web application is relatively straight forward.
Open a new instance of visual studio
File > New Website
Select the folder that has your web application.
Visual studio will warn you that there is already a website containing files at that location.
Select Create a new web site at the existing location.
It will warn you that some files like Default.aspx exist. Choose not to replace them.
And you are done.
The reverse, creating a web application from a web site is difficult. So be sure before you make the change.
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I have created a web site definition in IIS and when I create a new web form in Visual Studio it keeps creating it as a .vb instead of a .cs code behind. I did not create it from any templates, I just want a very simple site with a couple little pages but I would prefer to do it in c#. Is there something in the web.config (which is also minimal) that would tall Visual Studio that this is a C# site? This is all done via FTP/Remote.
I am NOT new to programming however new to c#, asp, and visual studio. For my course project I have to take a seniors existing code and add some more functionality to it to demonstrate my ability in Software Maintenance.
Bug Tracking or is my project and I have to select from two different project however they are old Web Site template and NOT Web Application.
Found a way to open them now I just help with basic SQL settings
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Refer to picture and then read please. 2 sub-folders in the project folder, once contains code and the other contains DB files (Pic# 1-3). Pic-4 shows the SqlConnection ctor and Pic-5 is my problem.
Both project appear to be the web forms template, and appear to be the web site template approach, which doesn't have a CSPROJ or VBPROJ file for the project. If there is a solution, you can open it from there. So use Visual Studio or the web developer express tools, which are free.
I'll be working on in a project where we'll be re-writing ASP classic pages to ASP.NET WebForm. I've never worked with VB, VBScript, ASP Classic. The good thing is there are plenty of documentation on VB6, VB.NET, ASP Classic, and even on how to migrate ASP to ASP.NET WebForm.
Although in all the tutorial it's said that the best strategy to re-write an existing ASP classic application in ASP.NET WebForm is to integrate them in one solution then move chunk of code at a time, I can't find one tutorial where it's shown how to set up a Visual Studio solution with both ASP and ASP.NET WebForm code.
so how do I setup a Visual Studio solution with both types of application? At least point me to such tutorial.
Thanks for helping
The simple answer to your question is that in Solution Explorer you right click on the project root, select Add -> Existing Item, and then add your .asp files to the project. You may already have some files which have nothing to do with .net in your project, such as stylesheets and image files, treat .asp files in the same way. Beyond that there's no additional setup required
Classic ASP code isn't compiled, it's intepreted at runtime, so you won't be able to debug them the way you would with C#/VB.net files within VS, the standard way to debug Classic ASP is via error messages when you try run the page. When you have a mixture of Classic and .net I find it helps to see them as two separate websites which live in the same root folder.
Also, in case you haven't discovered this already, the dev server which comes with VS doesn't support Classic ASP, so you need to set your project up to use a local version of IIS (or IIS Express) as your dev server
I have a highly complicated web site that is under source control and has a long history. I would like to migrate this website into a web application project but I do not want to lose the source control history. We use Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server (Currently 2005 tfs but we are in the process of upgrading to 2010).
How can we create a webapplication project and migrate the files from the web application into it without losing the source control connections?
Is there a need to "migrate" the files to a new directory structure?
Seems to me that if you left all the files where they were, created a new WebApplication project, and just use "Add Existing Items" to add the files to it, that everything would be fine. All the files would stay in the same place, you'd have a brand new project file, and your history would be preserved on everything.
I need to get existing web pages into an existing ASP.NET web site project in Visual Studio 2008. I simply tried to drag and drop the whole file folder content into the Visual Studio Solution Explorer or even to copy them into the web site folder.
Both ways, Visual Studio seems unable to map the .designer.cs files to the corresponding .aspx (or .master) file, even after restarting the whole IDE. The Solution Explorer entry looks in a way like this:
- Main.aspx
Main.aspx.cs
Main.aspx.designer.cs
Can I make Visual Studio file the designer-file below the aspx-file in any way? I strongly hope there is a simpler way than manually creating each file and copying and pasting the contents into each file by hand.
It sounds like you are trying to bring web application files into a web site. IIf that is the case, The designer files are not even needed. Just dont include them. They are generated and compiled in at runtime when the website runs.
Kind of partially self-answering my question:
In a web project - in contrast to a web site - it works perfectly through drag and drop onto the solution explorer, as I did for the web site before. To make the decision which type of "web site unit" to use there is another thread here on stackoverflow: ASP.NET Web Site or Web Project.
In a web site I can't even use YonahW's solution, because I can't just put files into the proper web site directory without causing them to be added to the web site automatically. Thanks to you anyway, YonahW. :-)
try copying the files through the filesystem and then right clicking on the project and selecting to add an existing item at which point you can choose all at once and this usually puts them in the proper places.