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Templates in Visual Studio in ASP.NET Web Forms

Understanding different templates available in Visual Studio


Project template :

  • ASP.NET Web Site – used to create a normal ASP.NET Web Form based website that will have some folders and files by default to proceed further.
  • ASP.NET Empty Web Site – used to create a website that will not have any files other than web.config (configuration) file. 
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data Entities Web Site – used to create a website based on Dynamic Data (A different methodologies to create a website) with entities.
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data Linq to SQL Web Site – used to create a website based on Dynamic Data with Linq to SQL. 
  • WCF Service – used to create a WCF web services


Files template :

  • Web Form – to add a normal form based asp.net web page 
  • Master Page – to add a master page (will learn later on in this course) 
  • Web User Control – to add a user control (will learn later on in this course) 
  • ADO.NET Entity Data Model – used to add a ADO.NET Entity Framework classes 
  • Browser File – used to add a file for browser definition 
  • Class – to add a new class file 
  • Generic Handler – to add a generic handler 
  • HTML Page – to add a html page 
  • jScript file – to add a JavaScript file 
  • LINQ to SQL Classes – to add LINQ to SQL model class 
  • Resource File – to add a resource file used primarily for localization purpose 
  • Silverlight 1.0 JScript Page – to add a page used to display as Spalsh screen for Silverlight application
  • Silverlight Application – to add a Silverlight application in the project 
  • Site Map – to add a site map file for the website 
  • Skin File – to add a skin file used in creating Themes for the website 
  • SQL Server Database – to add a new database in the website 
  • Style Sheet – to add a css file (to add css classes) 
  • Text File – to add a text file 
  • WCF Service – to add a WCF Service 
  • Web Configuration File – to add a web.config file 
  • Web Service – to add a traditional web service 
  • XML File – to add a xml file

Hints :

Generally all codes (either html or asp.net) are written under <form> </form> tag of the ASP.NET page (.aspx). Unless otherwise stated, please copy-paste the ASPX code inside the <form> </form> tag. 


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