Hi Ken, In lieu of having the source code to the site available (i.e. the original source, rather than whatever is online just now), I would simply edit the master page with a text editor to include the new link, then add the new page by copying-modifying-pasting an existing page.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM, OccasionalFlyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that I've taken over responsibility for an existing site, I have > a problem. I've got Visual Studio installed and I've made changes to > existing pages, but in all the books I've looked at for new ASP.NET > development, everyone assumes you are making a site from scratch and > have everything on your local system. That's not my situation. I need > to add a new menu item and a new page (static content with a link to > click) to the site but I don't know how to get Visual Studio to know > about my master page, about the images that go with it, etc., so that > the page is correct, and I am unsure how to add a menu item. I see in > VS how to add menu items but again, this is for an existing site, not > one I'm building from scratch. Am I making this too hard? What would > be the best way to approach doing what would be a simply task in other > environments (at least in my experience a Java-based web site)? I'm > reluctant to copy the entire site to my hard drive, as it has 100's of > megs of content (pdfs mostly) and I've only got my PC at home over DSL > to do this. Thanks. > > Ken >
