Check the MSDN library option unless you are short on drive space or have a slow download link. Accept the default installation location and click Install. If ASP. You must register Visual Web Developer Express to continue using it after 30 days, but registration is free. With all the software installed, your development environment still needs to be configured and tested. We do this in stages so that a failure at any stage is easy to diagnose.
The basis for serving a web site is web server software. Right-click this and choose Properties , displaying the properties dialog shown below:.
The two tabs we are most interested in are the ASP. NET tab and the Documents tab. Select the Documents tab and you will see a predefined list of default documents, in the order IIS will use if it finds them.
For our application, we will use only Default. To help secure our site, we will remove all the other file names listed so that IIS will not serve them, even if they exist. After deleting these, and adding Default.
The other tab we need to configure is the ASP. NET tab. On this tab we will set the ASP. NET version that our application will use. This can be confusing, as even though we will be using ASP. Remember, ASP.
In the ASP. NET drop-down list, make sure that you select the 2. By default, the root folder of a web site is an application, and that's what we will use for our CMS project.
NET configuration tab. If you are developing in a virtual folder or a subfolder of the root of your site, you will need to set that folder as an application in IIS. Chapter 12 has a section on setting folders as applications in IIS. Double-click it and the Default Document pane will open. Highlight any document that is not Default. If you do not have a Default. When you have finished, the Default Document pane should look as shown in the following screenshot:.
NET framework version. NET versions are configured on an application pool basis, so selecting the correct application pool is all you need to do for your application to run under ASP.
The default installation of IIS 7. NET pipeline found in earlier versions. This means that in the integrated pipeline, all requests to the server are processed by the ASP. You normally need to worry about this only when you are migrating an application, but you can find a list of breaking changes for ASP. For Windows Vista and IIS 7, all you need to do at this time is verify that the default application pool is set to version 2.
There is one additional step we need to take in setting up our web site. Since we will be altering files on the site using ASP. NET process account to do so. For this we use NTFS permissions, also known as Windows file and folder permissions, to allow the proper account access to the system. The default ASP.
These are less privileged accounts that the ASP. NET process runs under to provide additional security. Unless you have changed the default account, these are the accounts that need access to our web site files and folders. In Windows Vista, you must be signed in as a local administrator to set permissions. On the Security tab, we need to add the proper account for our version of Windows. These accounts are hidden accounts, so simply type in the proper account name rather than searching for it.
Also, these are local accounts. Grant this account Full Control to the web folder. When you're finished, the Security dialog should look something like this:.
There is no point in writing any application code if it won't work, so we need to test our installation and make sure that IIS will serve an ASP. NET page. The traditional test method for programming and web sites is with a "Hello World! We want one that uses some ASP. NET functionality, so ours won't simply display "Hello World! What we need is an application like this:. Save this code as Default. NET label control to display "Hello World! What we want is to display this in the same way a browser would display it when browsing our CMS application.
You should see a display similar to this:. NET pages. The location "localhost" that we browsed to has special meaning in the networking world. This name resolves to an IP address of It cannot be used from a second system, as "localhost" resolves to that second system on that second system. Alright, we've spent half this chapter just setting up a development system, and now it's time to actually develop something. This application will be the world's simplest Content Management System, and pretty much useless in the real world, but we'll be getting our hands dirty on creating the basics of all web Content Management Systems.
At the heart of any Content Management System is the ability to change content without doing any programming. Most CMS users will be unskilled in development, web design, or even the basics of HTML, but they will be skilled in creating the content they wish to be managed.
This application will allow them to add, delete, and change simple content on a very simple web page. We'll walk through creating this application in Visual Web Developer, though in future chapters I'll assume that you can find your way through VWD well enough to write the application with just code snippets.
All the code for every chapter is available for download see the appendix for instructions. We're going to use a few simple ASP.
NET controls to accomplish this. First, let's create the Default. Immediately save this file as Default. Go ahead and overwrite the "Hello World! We know that our development environment is working. We'll first need a place for the content. In this example, we'll be using only text as the content, and a Textbox control will do fine.
We will also need a link to take us to the Edit. We'll use a simple Hyperlink control for this. We still need to create the Edit. We also need to populate the Label control with the text for our content, and we need to store that content for future use or editing. Right now it is being populated with the Text attribute of the Label control. However, to change the text, you would need to open the ASP.
In our main CMS project, we'll use a database for content. However, as databases aren't fully covered until Chapter 2 , for this example, we'll use a simple text file to store our content. The principal is the same as using a database, and many content management systems have been built that store content in the file system instead of a database. Before we can read a text file into the Label control, or edit it with Edit. Create a simple text file named Content. For this example we've used "Greeked" text—a publishing layout tool that consists of random Latin words and phrases, which when printed on a page or viewed in a web page, have the general look of text that will eventually appear there.
You've probably seen this used in sample web sites, and it's often referred to as Lorem Ipsum text after the first words normally found in it. We need to alter our code to display the Content. We used a StreamReader class to read the text file Content.
Let's run through the code for this. We needed to import the System. IO namespace because we'll use the File class to open the text file and read it, so we added the line:. We are reading the file through a StreamReader object that is returned by the OpenText method of the File class, so the following lines define the name of the file and create the StreamReader object:.
Then we open the Content. We then close the StreamReader object. If you don't do this, you can get unpredictable results from future attempts to access this file. And good programming dictates that if we open something, we close it when we're done.
We've also modified our Label control to remove the Text attribute we had assigned, as this will now be assigned by our application code:. Our content is displayed in the web page and we no longer need to edit the code directly to change it. Of course, we still need to edit the Content. That's better than having to edit the code, but it's not very convenient and it certainly can open security risks if you need to provide access to the files in the root of your web site. We need to create a better way to edit the content, without needing physical access to the content storage file.
We will create a second ASP. NET page to handle editing the Content. United States English. Home Learn Downloads Community. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Getting Started with ASP. NET question on a topic that's not covered by one of the other more specific forums - ask it here.
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