Running Your Website

Welcome back. 0:00 We've got our project created now, but having a website that you haven't seen 0:01 running in a browser, [INAUDIBLE] bad as useful as a book that you've never opened. 0:05 Luckily, Visual Studio makes it really easy. 0:09 Ready? 0:13 Let's do it. 0:13 To run a website, we'll click on the play button here at the top of the screen. 0:15 If you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard, like I do, 0:20 you can also press the F5 function key. 0:23 But before we do that, 0:26 let's click the little down triangle here on the right hand side of the play button. 0:28 This displays a list of the installed browsers. 0:33 Using this list, we can select the browser that we want to use to run our website. 0:36 Let's select Google Chrome and then click the play button. 0:41 Visual Studio will build our website and load it into the browser that we selected. 0:46 Here's our website. 0:51 The first page that we see is our default page which for 0:53 our website is the homepage. 0:56 Using the menu here in the header, we can click on About, 0:58 to see the about page, or Contact to see the contact page. 1:02 If we click on Application Name, that takes us back to the homepage. 1:07 Let's switch back to Visual Studio. 1:13 Notice how our environment has changed, the output panel has been replaced 1:16 with the Autos and Call Stack panels, both of which are used for debugging. 1:20 Over here on the right, the Properties panel has been hidden and 1:25 we now have a Diagnostic Tools panel being displayed. 1:29 We're not gonna use the Diagnostic Tools during this workshop, so we can safely 1:32 collapse that panel by clicking the pin here in the right-hand corner. 1:36 There, to stop our application, click the stop button. 1:41 Our website has stopped running and 1:46 our environment returns back to what it was before. 1:48 Wasn't that fun? 1:51 I always enjoy seeing my websites running in a browser for the first time. 1:52 Whenever you start new website projects, it's helpful to get something up and 1:58 running as quickly as possible before you start making any other changes. 2:02 The process of making a small change or set a small changes then running your 2:07 website or application to review and test those changes, forms the basis 2:11 of what developers like to call iterative or incremental development. 2:16 Doing development in this way, 2:22 makes it easier to determine the source of a problem when something goes wrong. 2:23 Throughout your career as a developer, you'll literally do thousands and 2:28 thousands of iterations. 2:32 For our next iteration, 2:34 let's take a closer look at the folder structure of our project. 2:35