Choosing an ASP.NET Project Template

Websites in Visual Studio start with a project template. The website project represents a connection between Visual Studio, the source code of your website, and a web server (be it local or otherwise). What the project template contains, however, continues to evolve and expand to support multiple web application scenarios.

Simple Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) sites with just text, hyperlinks, and a few images are rarely created anymore or even discussed seriously as websites. Instead, ASP.NET along with HTML 5, CSS 3, and various client-side JavaScript libraries have pushed the definition of website well beyond the original ASP (active server pages) model that combined HTML with some server-side script. ...

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