ASP Environment Set Up

ASP.Net Environment Setup:

The key development tool for building ASP.Net applications and front ends is Visual Studio.

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment for writing, compiling and debugging the code. It provides a complete set of development tools for building ASP.Net web applications, web services, desktop applications and mobile applications.

When you start a new web site, ASP.NET provides the starting folders and files for the site, including two files for the first web form of the site.

The file named Default.aspx contains the HTML and asp code that defines the form, and the file named Default.aspx.cs (for C# coding) or the file named Default.aspx.vb (for vb coding) contains the code in the language you have chosen and this code is responsible for the form's works.

A typical ASP.Net application consists of many items: the web content files (.aspx), source files (e.g., the .cs files), assemblies (e.g., the .dll files and .exe files), data source files (e.g., .mdb files), references, icons, user controls and miscellaneous other files and folders. 

All these files that make up the website are contained in a Solution.

Typically a project contains the following content files:

• Page file (.aspx)
• User control (.ascx)
• Web service (.asmx)
• Master page (.master)
• Site map (.sitemap)
• Website configuration file (.config)

The application is run by selecting either Start or Start Without Debugging from the Debug menu, or by pressing F5 or Ctrl-F5. 

The program is built i.e. the .exe or the .dll files are generated by selecting a command from the Build menu.