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Web Projects

Applies to: yesVisual Studio noVisual Studio for Mac

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A Web project system is a project system that creates Web projects. Web projects in turn create Web applications. You can program a Web page using traditional programming languages, such as Visual Basic or Visual C#, to collect and process information from a user, store it in a database, and so on. Web pages with associated code are called smart Web pages.

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Presents the important elements Visual Studio Web projects.

Presents an overview of Visual Studio Web site projects. A Web site project generates one executable file for each smart Web page. Additional executable files are generated from the source code files in the /App_Code folder.

Describes how to extend the Visual Studio project system.