I have created a project and it compiles successfully, i have just tried unloading my project, but apparently I need a default.aspx file to make my project complete. What is this and can I now create one?

Thanks

Louisa

The default.aspx is the ASP.NET page! What is it you have compiled? If you have done an ASP.NET project using e.g. Visual Studio .NET, the default.aspx file is situated in the project folder.

The compiled code behind files have to be put in a bin folder on the web server. Is it code behind files you have compiled?

Hope it helps, Jacob.

I have no default.aspx in the project file, I am not sure what I have done wrong. The project loads starting on a form that I created not a default.aspx page is it because I am not compiling it properly? I just go to Build then Build Project.

Thanks

Louisa

Are you using Visual Studio .NET?

If you are not using VS .NET and you are not comfortable with the way ASP.NET works, then you should make a sample project without code-behind and only a default.aspx file. Then you do not need to compile anything.

This would give you an idea of the setup, and you can evolve this example to more advanced projects, which also includes code-behind.

Jacob.

Web sites are configured to load certain default pages since URLs don't usually have that page in them. You never see http://www.amazon.com/myform.aspx.

It is a configuration option in your web server. What web server are you using? Is it IIS?

In IIS you can specify a search order for "default" pages and it allows you to add others, like you could even add myform.aspx and your web server would search for that page. I'm not sure if a .NET project has to have a default.aspx page or not.

Thanks,
Richard