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.
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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.
it really easy to add a exsisting aspx file or any kind of other thing into website(VS)
simply we need to copy paste that file into website folde as msdn suggested
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0hds5k93(v=vs.100).aspx
but how to add an aspx file into webapplication project cause webapplication is different from website.
For information about the difference between Web site projects and Web application projects, see Web Application Projects versus Web Site Projects.
my question is how to add an aspx file into web application i am doing copy paste into my folder but getting error i have asked before see blow link.
One web application project's aspx file is not working into another web application project
Copy your existing aspx file and paste it directly to your new web application where you want to add it. Now open this web application Visual Studio and in solution explorer click the button "show all files". Once this added file shown up in visual studio right click this page and select "Include in Project". Hope this will work.
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.
I haven't got a solution file for a project that i have been asked to work on. However i have all the other aspx and aspx.cs files in one location on my comp. Is it possible for me to create a solution file or may be create a new website project in visual studio 2008 so i should be able to compile the website in visual studio.
Alternatively if someone can direct me to a link for setting up a website on IIS would be a great help but bare in mind i dont have a .sln or a .csproj file.
Any Help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
Nitesh.
You mention that you don't have "a solution file for a project". Check to see if you have a project file. If you do, you can just double click that and it will open that project in Visual Studio and place it in a solution.
Just to clarify. A project contains application files (aspx, aspx.cs, .cs etc), and solutions contain projects.
If you don't have a project file, I would create a new empty web application and then "add existing files" to it.
You can create a new website project in VS and then copy your files into it. Use the Show All Files button on Solution Navigator and add them to the project. Should work.
You'll want to create a new project and then add all of your existing files to it. See How to: Add Existing Items to a Project
Every time I use Setup & Deployment to create a new Web Setup, and run it (after edit all the nice things in the properties), the output is always a copy of the Web Site project...
How can I output a PreCompile version of the WebSite project?
What I did was, publish the Web Site (so I get the precompiled version), add this new precompiled web site as an existing Web site to my solution and add it to the content output of the Setup...
well, the idea was good but I get an error saying:
"This application is already precompiled."
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:-(
Bottom line is that I just want a Setup file that gives me the precompiled version of my Web project, how can I accomplish this?
I see you tried the standard Web Setup project from VS.
Scott Gu's blog post takes you to this page:
Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects
which is a plugin for Visual Studio that activates an additional "right click" option to any Web Site project to add such a deployment project. You can see here what I created.... And the output is a pre-compiled web application. Now, if you add a regular Web Setup project to your solution, and point it to the previously created Web Deploy project as its content, ... I got a valid build, no errors and an MSI file was created...with dlls inside it.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6177/71881923mj9.jpg
I hope this helps you.
I was searching for this solution from google for long days. What i did is i precompiled my website to one folder and added that folder as a new website to my
solution(While adding it will give a warning message that it was already precompiled content. No probs). Now add this project output to the my setup project and one more important thing is in my web deployment project i just disabled Building of my precompiled
website.
I just got my thinks working. If you want you can try that.
Regards,
Rousseau.A
you may be having "PrecompiledApp.config" file in the root of your web application (please check in solution explorer).
I faced this issue and removed "PrecompiledApp.config" from solution explorer and solved the issue.