Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Web Projects, New Project window

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Figure 1-28 New Project window

Other windows projects include Windows Services, which are applications that are always on and run as a service in the background without a GUI, Class Libraries for holding reusable code often referred to as middleware, and Control Libraries for holding graphical controls that can be dragged-and-dropped from the Toolbox onto a visual designer within VS.

Web Projects

Web projects include ASP.NET, Server Controls, Web Services, and Dynamic Data. An ASP.NET project allows you to write an application that is hosted by a Web server, such as Internet Information Server (IIS), and runs in a Web browser. A Server Control project enables you to build a library of GUI controls that can be dragged-and-dropped onto the design surface of a Web page in VS. Web Services are reusable components that you can call from across the Internet. An important feature of Web Services is that they use ubiquitous protocols to enable code from any platform to call them, facilitating integration among heterogeneous computing systems. Dynamic Data projects offer a quick way to build a working Web site, based on an existing database schema.