Microsoft KB Archive/303845

= How To Create or Open a Visual Studio .NET Project in the Root Web =

Article ID: 303845

Article Last Modified on 8/12/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q303845



SUMMARY
Visual Studio .NET provides a new way to create and open a project that is located in the root Web. This article describes this new procedure. As in Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0, it is convenient to create and open a project in the root Web when you are working with Web applications that serve as the root of a Web server. The pages for the application are stored in the root Web and in the subdirectories of the root Web, but they are not stored in subWebs.



Creating a Project in the Root Web

 * 1) In Visual Studio .NET, click Options on the Tools menu.
 * 2) In the Options dialog box, click to expand the Projects and Web Settings nodes.
 * 3) Under Preferred Access Method, confirm that you are in File Share mode, and then click OK.

NOTE: Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions on the Internet Information Server (IIS) virtual server to which you are connecting are no longer required. This differs from Visual InterDev 6.0.
 * 1) From the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
 * 2) In the Project Types list box, click either Visual Basic Projects or Visual C# Projects.
 * 3) In the Templates list box, click New Project In Existing Folder. Name your project, and then click OK.
 * 4) In Location text box, type the address of your virtual server (for example, http:// ).

NOTE: This path should point to a shared folder, and the user who creates the project should have the appropriate permissions for that share. By default, C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot is shared as \\ \Wwwroot$.

Opening an Existing Project That Is Located in the Root Web

 * 1) From the File menu, point to Open, and then click Project From Web.
 * 2) Type the address of your virtual server. For example, type http://.
 * 3) In the Open Project dialog box, select any existing project file in the root Web, and then click Open.

