CREATING WEBSITES WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2012
The preceding chapter gave you a quick overview of creating a website in VS. You simply chose New
Web Site from the File menu, selected a language, selected the standard ASP.NET Web Forms Site
template, 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 among a number of different templates
that enable you to create different kinds of sites. But before looking at the different templates
on which you can base your new website, you need to know a little more about the different project
types that are available in VS.
Diff erent Project Types
In Visual Studio 2012 you can choose between two types of projects for creating ASP.NET Web
Forms websites: Web Application Projects and Web Site Projects.