After VWD has opened, look to the left side of the screen for a region labeled Recent Projects, and you will notice that there are options to open and create web sites. Click the link associated with creating a web site. This opens a window that looks similar to Figure 9.

Figure 9. Figure 9

Leave the location set to File System, and if Visual C# is not selected as the language, go ahead and change that now.

By default, when File System is selected as the location for a web site, VWD will default to placing this in the My Documents folder of the current Windows user. While there is nothing wrong with this, I do not prefer it. It is worth noting that this step is completely optional, because the physical location of the folder is trivial to developing the web site, so feel free to place the web site wherever you would like. Personally, I like all of my web folders to reside under the wwwroot folder that is created with IIS; to achieve this, click the Browse button, and when the window appears, navigate to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot, create a new folder called ASPtoASPNET, and click OK. Your screen should look similar to Figure 10.

Figure 10. Figure 10

Click Open, which causes this window to close, and then click OK on the original screen to create your new web site at the specified location. Once VWD has created the site, you will notice that a default page is already prepared and ready to go.

Before you do anything, go to Window Reset Window Layout, which causes VWD to expose all of the windows that you will be using throughout this Wrox Blox.