Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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CHAPTER 2 ■ BASICS OF WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH ASP.NET
Figure 2-8. You’ll find out more about the page itself in the next section, but first, let’s finish
looking at the Solution Explorer.
The Solution Explorer is more than just a means to view the files in your project. You
can right-click any item in the window to access a context menu of actions that you can
take with your solution (see Figure 2-9). To get the solution options, it’s best to select the
project name at the top of the Solution Explorer and right-click that. Experiment with
right-clicking each of the artifacts within the Solution Explorer to see what other actions
are available.
Figure 2-9. Solution Explorer context options
As you can see, the menu shown in Figure 2-9 is quite a long list. Let’s look at each of
these options.
Build Web Site
This option invokes the compiler to build each page and element on your web site. The
compiler will check your pages for errors and flag them in the Errors window, which is
typically in the middle of the IDE, beneath the code window.
Figure 2-10 shows an example of this. The error is described in the Errors window,
along with metadata such as the file and its location. You can double-click the error
description to jump to the error.