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Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
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Posted by Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Non ASP.NET webpages in the Visual Studios IDE

Coming back to HTML/JS/CSS from writting C#, I really miss the Visual Studios IDE. I know that VS is geared towards ASP.NET websites when making web applications, But I also would like to use it for its debugging features in non ASP.NET websites.

VS is always looking for 'solution' files like program.cs, even when working with webpages.

How do you open existing (non ASP.NET) websites in VS or start new projects with HTML/JS/CSS files?

2 Answers

Philip G
Philip G
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Philip G
Philip G
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Hi Aaron.

I'd suggest you to give Visual Studio Code a try! It's free and maybe you find the look and feel you know from Visual Studio there. For frontend-projects I also like Brackets

Let me know how you like them!

Best Regards, Philip

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Yes, the IDE is nice, but to be perfectly honest I haven't found a way to do this for just a plain website without it being ASP. So, instead of using VS for my frontend development, I tend to use Netbeans. It's free to use and will detect errors and issue warnings. I recommend that you give it a shot! But, if you find a way to do just a normal website in VS, please let me know :sparkles:

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
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Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
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Hi there Jennifer, Long time no see. Let's see if anyone knows something about this...

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi again! I did some digging around and you can make a new project. File->New->Website and then choose the Empty ASP website. Then choose File->Add->Existing website and choose the folder where your website exists. Keep in mind though, that actually launching this website with the "play" button will require that you do some configuration of IIS services on your machine :smiley: