Hi,

I bought this book "Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB" by Imar Spaanjaars. The book is based on Visual Studio 2013 for Web and I have Visual Studio 2017 in my computer.

When I try to create a simple website by creating a new "ASP.NET Empty Web Site" I don't get all the expected files in my project including the file Default.aspx. I only get the files packages.config and web.config.

What am I missing here? Is there any installation program that I am missing? I installed "ASP.NET and Web Development Package" with VS.

Thanks,

Robert

Hi Robert,

The definition of empty has changed between versions. In 2013 it meant "not a lot, but still some useful stuff" but these days empty means a pretty much empty web site.

The closest thing in 2017 is the ASP.NET Web Forms Site.

Note: lots of stuff has changed in the last few years, so you'l find lots of other differences between your version of VS and what's described in the book.

Cheers,

Imar

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Thank you Imar for your reply. Yes, loading a ASP.NET Web Forms Site solved the problem.

By the way, good job in writing this book. It's been very helpful to me.

You're welcome. Glad you like it....

Imar

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