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Creating a Project Using Visual Studio
5:13Now that we have our GitHub repo, let’s create our project.
Now that we have our GitHub repo,
let's create our project.
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If you elected to not create a repo, you
can start the process of creating a new
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project by clicking on file,
new, project in the top menu.
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If you created a repo,
you can click to create a new project or
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solution link in the status message
here to open the new project dialog.
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Using the search box in
the upper right hand corner,
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we can search our installed
project templates.
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Let's type asp.net.
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Now we're seeing a list of the installed
asp.net project templates.
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The column here on the right shows
which language the template is for.
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Since we're interested in using C#,
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we need to focus in on the templates for
Visual C#.
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That's interesting, there are two ASP.net
web application C# project templates.
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Turns out they're the same template.
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One is installed under the web category
and the other is in the cloud category.
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Go ahead and
click on either one in order to select it.
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Notice the panel, here on
the right-hand side of the dialog, for
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Application Insights.
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Application Insights is a powerful
application profiling tool.
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But in the spirit of
keeping things simple,
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make sure that this
checkbox is not checked.
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Let's turn our attention to the dropdown
list near the top of the dialog.
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It contains a list of the .NET framework
versions that we currently have installed.
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Having more than one version
installed is typical
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as the .NET framework is updated over
time with new features and bug fixes.
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I'm going to select the latest
version in this list.
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Don't worry if your
version is newer than mine
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as .NET is constantly updating for
the better.
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Next, let's go to the bottom
of the dialog and
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change our project name
to comic book gallery.
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Under location, we are currently saving
our project in the root of our repo but
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I like to keep all of my source
code in a folder named SRC.
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Which is a common abbreviation for source.
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Keeping all of our source code in its
own folder makes it easier to store
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other project artifacts, like
documentation in its own sibling folder.
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If you're not using GitHub,
go ahead and use the default location.
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If you're using GitHub,
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let's click the Browse button to
select a new project location.
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Create a folder by clicking
the New Folder button.
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Then click the Select Folder
button to select it.
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Let's go ahead and leave the default
value for the solution name field and
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make sure that the create directory for
solution checkbox is unchecked.
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Click the OK button to
continue to the next step.
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Welcome to the second step in the process,
the new ASP.NET project dialogue.
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Within this dialog we can view and
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select the specific ASP.NET project
template that we want to use.
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At the time of this recording
ASP.NET 5 now known
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as ASP.NET core is still
under development.
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Given that, let's select the template
from the ASP.NET 4.6.1 Template section.
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Future releases of ASP.NET might diverge
significantly from the version that I'm
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using here.
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So if you're following along,
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make sure that you're using
one of the 4.x templates.
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The third template in the list
is the in NVC template.
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Selecting that template would create
a project that contains a simple
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NVC website.
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While we could work with that,
let's take a slightly different approach.
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Let's start with an empty project
by selecting the empty template.
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And use the check boxes here at
the bottom of the template list
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to add NVC to our project.
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Make sure that the hosting cloud checkbox
under the Microsoft Azure section
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is not selected.
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If you're interested in deploying
your website to the cloud, or
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a hosting provider, check the teacher's
notes for a list of resources.
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Now that we have all of our options set,
go ahead and click the OK button.
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Visual Studio will start
to create our project,
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displaying the status in the dialogue
at the center of the screen.
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Once the dialogue is closed,
we now have our project.
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In the solution explorer panel,
we can see the folders and
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files that the project
template provided for us.
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We're not going to review
everything you see here right now.
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Instead, we'll touch upon the important
parts, as we work through this course.
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If you're using GitHub, we have one
last thing to do, commit our changes.
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Switch back to the team Explorer panel.
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Then under the project's section,
click the changes button.
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Under the changes section here,
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we can see a list of the files
that we've added to our repo.
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Here in this yellow field,
we can enter a commit message.
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I'm just going to call this our initial
commit, then I'll click the down arrow on
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the Commit button and
select the Commit All and Push option.
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This will commit and
push our changes to the remote server.
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Great job, we have a lot left to do,
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but it always feels good
to get the project created.
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Before we start building out our website,
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let's see in the next video how to run it
so that we can preview it in a browser.
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