Choose Location Dialog Box

The Choose Location dialog box enables you to specify the Web site type and location for a new Web site. You can use the Choose Location dialog box to create a Web site on a file system or on your local computer running Internet Information Services (IIS), to open a Web site running on an FTP server, or to create a Web site on a remote computer running IIS.

To access this dialog box

1. In Visual Web Developer, on the File menu, click New Web Site (or on the File menu, click New and then click Web Site).

2. In the New Web Site dialog box, click Browse.

   The Choose Location dialog box opens.

UI Elements

• File System
  Enables you to create or open a file system Web site. For details, see How to: Create File System Web Site Projects.

• Local IIS
  Enables you to create or open a Web site on your local copy of IIS. For details, see How to: Create a Local IIS Web Site.

• FTP Site
  Enables you to open a Web site running on an FTP server, either locally or on a remote server. For details, see How to: Open Web Site Projects Using FTP.

• Remote Site
  Enables you to create or open a Web site on a different computer running IIS. For details, see How to: Create a Remote IIS Web Site.

See Also

Tasks

Walkthrough: Creating a Basic Web Page in Visual Studio

Walkthrough: Creating a Local IIS Web Site in Visual Studio

Walkthrough: Editing Web Sites with FTP in Visual Studio

Concepts

File System Web Site Projects

Local IIS Web Site Projects

FTP-Deployed Web Site Projects

Remote IIS Web Site Projects

Running Web Applications on Windows Vista with IIS 7.0 and Visual Studio