Available Project Templates

Basically there are two kinds of project templates for building ASP.NET web applications with VB 2010: Web Site and Web Application. There are several differences between the two templates, but the major differences follow:

• The website template has no project file, whereas Web Application has one. Choosing this second template brings more familiarity for other Visual Studio projects.

• The website template produces no compiled assemblies and requires the source code to be deployed, whereas the Web Application template allows building a compiled assembly and no source code is required.

• A website is simpler in its structure than the Web Application project template.

Due to their natures, this chapter shows examples ...

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