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Now, let us go ahead and explore web applications. Go ahead and cancel out of the screen, go back to the menu and select file, new, website. This provides you access to templates for web applications such as the ASP.Net website. This provides the server site physical files and references necessary to build a web form application. You also have an ASP.Net web service. This allows use of other services oriented application that provides data over HTTP and an XML format. And again, you have another starter kit here, the personal website starter kit. This allows you to go ahead and work with some other new features in ASP.Net 2.0. The personal website starter kit is quite easy to use. It allows you to upload photos and resumes to build your own personal website. The advantages that it uses the new features of ASP.Net 2.0, down below, you will see a language dropped down. This allows you to go ahead and select the particular language that you would like to use for that type of application.

Another option, location, allows you to go ahead and choose a location for your project. You make sure to store it on the file system or you may wish to go ahead and store it up on IIS via HTTP. This is one of the greatest advantages of Visual Studio 2005, that fact that no longer requires internet information server or IIS in order to build web applications. You see in the past, a big complaint by developers was the fact that IIS was not installed by default. When they went to go ahead and install it, what would happen is they would need administrative rights to their machine.

A lot of companies do not provide this; they would have to go to the network administrator or the operations manager to get these rights in order to work with the web application. Another issue in the past was network connectivity, in order to build web applications, you needed access to IIS, a lot of times IIS would be on a different machine altogether. This would cost a lot of network traffic concerning bandwidth. Now, in Visual Studio 2005, you would not longer have to rely on IIS and you can build your applications right on your local file system.

We will go ahead and cancel out of this. So, as you can see, Visual Studio 2005 has a variety if project templates that corresponded the architecture that we discussed previously. Now, let us go ahead and dig into the IDE.

Now, let us go ahead and explore web applications. Go ahead and cancel out of the screen, go back to the menu and select file, new, website. This provides you access to templates for web applications such as the ASP.Net website. This provides the server site physical files and references... click to read more