How do I open this in Visual Studio? - asp.net

I came across this project online and can't really get it to open with Visual Studio. Extremely new to Visual Studio. This doesn't have an exact project file that can be opened from what I've understood. It has a bunch of .cs and .aspx.cs files. How exactly do I open and execute this project in Visual Studio? Or am I barking up the wrong tree and trying to open something that can't be opened?
Link to the project - http://www.speedyshare.com/98XZf/ca-ma-sy

May be your project is not a web application project. it might be wesite.
If it is web application you will find .csproj file, if you didn't find then just follow the below steps
Open Visual Studio
click on file --> Open --> Website
You will get dialogue box with local file structure, Just Navigate to your project folder and select and click on open, After click on open your solution will be ready with your project.
Cheers,
Vijay

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Bye
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/controlka.png/
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