Engineering template support for new features of ASP.net 4.0

First, Introduction

In earlier versions of ASP.net, when you created a new Web site project or Web application project using Visual Studio, the resulting project often contained only a page named Default.aspx, a default profile Web.config, there is also a folder named App_Data, as shown in the following illustration:

In addition, Visual Studio supports an empty Web site project type, which does not provide any files, as shown in the following illustration:

As a result, for beginners, there is basically no framework guidance for how to create a utility Web application at the start of the project. To this end, ASP.net 4 Beta 2 has introduced three new templates, one for creating empty Web application projects, one for creating Web applications, and one for creating Web site projects. The following will be described in detail. 51CTO at this time also recommend to you the ASP. NET Video Tutorials "

Second, empty Web application Templates

As the name suggests, an empty Web application template is a streamlined Web application project. You can select this project template from the New Project dialog box in Visual Studio, as shown in the following illustration: