asp.net 5 preview templates - web site - asp.net

Very new to visual studio and have been working through tutorials.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/992208/Angular-JS-Application-with-MVC-Web-API-ASPNET-and
When starting a new project it says to select the asp.net 5 preview template web site but I only have the options Empty, Web API, and Web Application.
Would I chose Web Application or do I need to download the template "web site"?

File, New Project. Don't do File New Website.
Make sure in the version drop down in the top left you have .NET 4.5 or later selected. For a new project, probably best to go with the latest.
If you still don't see the ASP.NET 5 Preview Templates, you may need to reinstall VS 2015.

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Convert to Web Application in VS 2015.1

I'm running Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Update 1.
I created an empty Visual Basic ASP.NET Website targeting the .NET Framework 4.5.2. And I want to convert it to an ASP.NET Web Application.
Under the Website's context menu in Solution Explorer there is no "Convert to Web Application" menu-item, nor is there anything under the Website menu in the main-menu bar:
Where has the feature gone? Has it been removed completely in Update 1?
This is the most confusing part of converting websites to web applications. The way you need to do it is to:
Create a new Web Application project
Copy all of your website contents into it (you could create the *.csproj file in the same website directory, then include all files into the project without actually having to move them)
The command will be available on the WebApp project (under the Project menu, at the bottom)
Basically at that point the command looks at the contents of the WebApp project and makes adjustments so that they are more suitable for a WebApp project.

Missing ASP.NET 5 Templates

I am following this setup tutorial
https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/your-first-aspnet-application.html#create-a-new-asp-net-5-project
And have come across a problem. In the tutorial the instructions are as follows:
Start Visual Studio 2015. From the File menu, select New > Project.
Select the ASP.NET Web Application project template. It appears under
Installed > Templates > Visual C# > Web. Name the project ContosoBooks
and click OK.
This is fine, but in the next step :
In the New ASP.NET Project dialog, select Web Application under
ASP.NET 5 Preview Templates. Also, make sure the Host in the cloud
checkbox is not selected and click OK.
I am seeing no ASP.NET 5 Preview templates!
The only thing I am noticing is that my Authentication states No Authentication but I am signed in so I am not sure what this means or whether or not this is a factor.
The version I have installed of Visual Studio is "Community 2015".
I have already gone through the perquisites as outlined in This Article.
I am hoping that someone with a more thorough knowledge on the topic can help me out as I have not been able to find any threads etc. of the same issue or what could be causing the Templates to be missing.
Asp.net 5 templates no longer exist - they are renamed to Asp.net Core: ASP.NET 5 is dead - Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
So, when creating your project, instead of picking "ASP.NET Web Application" as it is in the video - you would select "ASP.NET Core Web Application" and then on the next page those 3 templates (Empty, Web API, Web Application) are the same as the video's asp.net 5 preview templates
VS 2015 Preview is going under ASP.net Core web application. If you cant see that one under templates you may go to this site and download .NET Core 1.0 for Visual Studio then install.
I have concluded, by following another stackoverflow question on How to check the ASP.NET version loaded on a system as I noticed that the templates were categorized in the ASP.NET versions (4.6.1 & 5) in the tutorials but mine were not.
So I then checked and my files in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework are as follows
Revealing no v5.0 directory. I rectified this and now all of the templates are available
AMENDMENT:
To fix it:
I went to http://www.asp.net/downloads and downloaded ASP.NET MVC 5
I ensured I had Developer Tools checked in the download process.
This issue was now resolved - As I then had the MVC 5 template files. Because I downloaded them, so I had them... and no longer didn't have them.
ALTERNATE FIX:
Furthermore From my research, some people had not included Developer Tools. To resolve: go to old mate 'Add or remove programs' and find your Microsoft Visual Studio 20xx install, 'change' and install Microsoft Web Developer Tools
I have had the same problem but it is actually even better because "The new dialog enables you to change the default authentication options for many of the templates. For example, when you create an ASP.NET Web Forms project you can select any of the following options:
No Authentication
Individual User Accounts (ASP.NET membership or social provider log in)
Organizational Accounts (Active Directory in an internet application)"
check out this >> http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc5
I recently had this problem and finally fixed it by uninstalling (control panel -> uninstall a program) Microsoft.NET Core and Microsoft Visual C++ redistrutable 2015 (x64 & x86) and then re-installing the asp.net core rc2 (https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windows or possibly check Tools->Extensions and Updates->Updates inside of Visual Studio).
I uninstalled the Visual C++ redistrutables because I kept getting an error when trying to re-install asp.net core rc2. It kept telling me that it already existed even after I had just uninstalled it and the update was showing in the "Extensions and Updates" section of Visual Studio after trying (but failing) to install the asp.net core rc2 update.

ASP.NET Web Application template missing in Visual Studio 2012

has anyone else dealt with this? My ultimate goal is to create a new empty web api project. I've been following tutorials and I've encountered the following issue:
My issue is that when I try to create a ASP.NET Web Application project in Visual Studio Pro 2012 I do not see that template as an option. I go to Installed --> Templates --> Visual C# --> Web
All I see is ASP.NET Empty Web Application. So I selected that and then expected the ASP.Net project window to pop up so that I could select "Web Api". However, that dialog never opened.
Does anyone know how/where I can get the ASP.NET Web Application template?
I came across your question as I had the same problem. When I first installed Visual Studio I didn't tick the box to install the Web Components. Here is how I solved the issue:
Close all your instances of Visual Studio.
Run the Visual Studio Installer (I found mine in the Downloads folder still and was named "vs_professional.exe").
For VS 2013 a grey window appears similar to when first installing VS.
When prompted select "Modify" from the list of options.
Tick the list item which I think was named "Web Development" or something similar.
Click update.
Once the installer has finished running launch Visual Studio.
When selecting New Project in Visual Studio I can now see the required templates.
Try to select Framework 4.5.
The Framework 4.0 don't have :)
Jorge Rocha
If you have ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application as an option under Web when you select it as a new project the project window pops up and you will be able to select Web API.
kale909's solution worked for me. I just added pics here to make it more clear:
then here:

ASP.NET Add Razor page in Web Application not Web Site, NO MVC

I just found a strange thing in Visual Studio 2010.
I can add a Razor page into a Web Site project, but I cannot do it in a Web Application project.
I do know I can create a ASP.NET MVC(1-4) project which allows me to add a Razor page into it.
After I checked the differences between Web Site(WS) project and Web Application(WA) project, it seems to me that WA is to trend to be in most cases and has more features than WS.
So my question is:
Visual Studio 2010 allows us to add a Razor page into a WS project(you can find it when adding a new page in the list of templates), but why it does not provide the Razor page in the template in the WA project?
I'm curious about it. Waiting for your answers :)
Cheers
I had the same problem when creating a new, Empty web application. I wanted to use MVC. Despite adding the references required, it still won't let me create files by right clicking on a folder.
However, if you have SP1 installed on Visual Studio 2010, you can:
Right Click > Add > New from Template> Razor MVC View
Hope this helps.

How to get the Silverlight XAP copied to the clientbin on build

I am just getting started with Silverlight and have recently added a Silverlight project to an established solution. In this particular scenario my solution included an existing ASP.NET web site (not application) which Visual Studio kindly offered to integrated my Silverlight application into, which I accepted.
So everything is fine and all, and the Silverlight XAP is being copied to the web site's ClientBin directory. Now I have decided to start a new ASP.NET MVC web application that will eventually replace the older (non-MVC) web site. But I cannot for the life of me figure out what Visual Studio modified to get the XAP to automatically appear in the web site's ClientBin on build, so that I can reproduce that on my MVC site.
So my question is essentially, what are the manually steps for getting Visual Studio to autocopy a Silverlight application's XAP to a newly added ASP.NET MVC web application?
You can do this through the properties of your web project. The Silverlight tools for visual studio add a new tab to the properties of web projects named "Silverlight Links".
Add a reference to your Silverlight project here, with the folder where you want it, and visual studio will make the copy for you.
The copying of the XAP to the ClientBin is a MSBuild task. If you're using a standard ASP.NET project template it can be found under the Silverlight Link section.
For everything else you might be able to figure out the name of the MSBuild task and add it to your ASP.NET MVC project. The easier solution would probably be to use a custom post-build event on the APS.NET project to copy the file.
There is no "magic" happening, oter than copying the XAP file from the BIN directory of your Silverlight project to the ClientBin of your web application. It doesn't even have to live inside the ClientBin directory - you can copy it to any directory, or the root of your site.
Update: The recently released Beta 1 of ASP.NET MVC includes support for Silverlight projects, so you can link it to your ASP.NET MVC application the same way you do for regular ASP.NET applications.
Go to the property pages of your Silverlight application, Choose Build Events Tab, Enter following line in Post-Build events command line:
copy $(TargetDir)*.xap $(SolutionDir)<youar web solution folder name such as app.web>\ClientBin
Now onwards, on each successful build, the xap file will be copied automatically.
This is a somewhat older post so it probably has changed... in my Visual Studio under the web project there is a tab called "Silverlight Applications". There is an add button there for existing projects that you import into the solution and you can add them and choose to place the xap in the ClientBin or anywhere else. Not sure if you have to have the SDK installed to have this tab. I have it installed so you may have to. I don't do MVC, so it may be different for MVC projects, I don't know.

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