CODEWITHSUNDEEP
asp.net-mvcvisual-studio
user1334004
user1334004

Reputation: 371

Curious on Starting Page (ASP.NET related)

I'm new to Web Page development, and my first question always is - do we normally declare a starting page whenever designing web pages?

Sometimes I get confused when building a web application in VS, I notice that when working on built web apps, we can't normally do the "Start Debugging" and a new window will appear for the application to be debugged. Instead, we normally go to the browser and type an address of the "starting page".

I'm relatively new to web page development, and I've been always curious why do we do that and how can we easily follow which page to start with?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (2)

Shyju
Shyju

Reputation: 218812

In Visual Studio IDE, if you are working with an ASP.NET web application/website, you can right click on a page and select "Set as Start page". If it is an MVC project, you can not do this. But you can go to the project properties and Set it under "web" tab of your project properties.

Upvotes: 0

web_bod
web_bod

Reputation: 5758

You can specify the start page for your web application:

  1. right click on your web app project,
  2. select properties,
  3. choose the Web tab,
  4. click specific page and browse for the page you want to start with

This technique also lets you pass querystring parameters to your starting page and to specify logical routes in an MVC application - e.g.

  • /Home/User/bobbyGreen <--- where the actual page is /Views/User/index.aspx
  • /FindUser?id=bobbygreen <---- passes the id parameter to the page on startup

Upvotes: 1

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