Understanding the ASP.NET 5 Project Template and Related Files

A typical website contains a number of different files including web pages, class files, scripts, style sheets, configuration files, images, JavaScript client libraries, and more. Visual Studio works to keep these many files organized and grouped together so that you may focus on building your site. As an example, the ASP.NET 5 Web Site project template (created as shown back in Figure 17.2) has a default structure in Solution Explorer, including many special directories and file types. Figure 17.3 show the default structure and contents when using this template.

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FIGURE 17.3 The ...

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