CIS 573 - Opening an ASP.NET website in VS.NET

Last modified 08/07/2006



In Visual Studio, create a new web application or web service project for C# by selecting the File...Open...Web Site... menu:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The wizard will pop up.  Enter the URL assigned for you, plus a subURL:

If this is the first time you're accessing this web site, you first must create it by clicking on the "New Web Site" button shown above.  For subsequent accesses, click directly on the Open button shown above.  When you are presented with a login screen, fill it in with your web login and password, such as:

After a few seconds' pause, you'll probably get the following warning:

Click OK to get past the above warning.   When you click OK above, there will be a pause again, and the project should eventually populate itself.  This can be quite a long wait, so be patient.

You can discover a fair amount about the server, including the physical path to your files, by browsing to http://wren.cis.upenn.edu/servinfo/If you are going to do any file I/O on the web server, I will need to prepare a special folder and give you permission to read/write it.


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