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Chapter 35: Building Applications Using Windows SharePoint Services Data 965
Note Visual Studio does not default to showing all files, which can make it
hard to find parts of the project. To save some time, at the very top of the
Solution Explorer window, click the Show All Files icon (which is the third
icon from the left).
To build a home page for testing
1. From the top menu, click Project and select Add New Item.
2. In the right pane, click Web Form to select it.
3. In the Name box on the bottom of the window, clear whatever is there, enter
Default.aspx, and then click Open.
4. We need an image to put on the home page, so right-click LocalHost (Or
Server) in the Solution Explorer window, select Add, and then click Add
Existing Item.
5. At the bottom of the page, in the Files of type drop-down list, select Image
Files.
6. Next, from the top of the page, use the Look In drop-down list to navigate to
the c:\Windows (or c:\Winnt) folder. From there, click any bitmap (BMP) or
JPG file.
7. Click the Open button to add it to the project. You should have the
Default.aspx file open in the editor.
8. If you are in HTML mode, click Design mode. (The layout grid should be
showing.)
9. In the Solution Explorer pane, click the new image you added, drag it to the
Default.aspx page, and drop it near the top left corner of the page.
10. In the Solution Explorer pane, right-click Default.aspx and from the menu,
select Set As Start Page. (This sets the Default.aspx page as the page to open
if we are running the debugger.)
11. Now save your project by selecting File and then Save All from the top
menu. (You can also press Ctrl+Shift+S to save everything.)
12. Then from the top menu again, select Build and then Build Solution. (You
can also press Ctrl+Shift+B.) An Output window should appear and indicate
that the build was successful.
Now we need to test the application to make sure it works. Open your browser,
and navigate to the new site—in our example, the URL is http://localhost:383 (or
http://:383). You should see the new page with the image as we created it.