The PagePorter Web Site Wizard assists you in creating a new PagePorter web site from either a template or from an existing FrontPage web. You can access this wizard by selecting the PagePorter Web Site template from the Visual Basic, Visual C#, or Visual J# project type.

Web Site Content

You can choose to create a blank PagePorter web site or import a FrontPage web in this section. You may also choose how you want to manage the site. Regardless of how you decide to create the new PagePorter web site, it will have all of the same features and capabilities.

Create the PagePorter web site from a template

Creates a blank new PagePorter web site project. Click the Browse... button to select a Microsoft Office Theme for the web site.

Create the PagePorter web site from a FrontPage web

Creates a new PagePorter web site project based on an existing FrontPage web. The FrontPage web is copied into the new PagePorter web site project. For good results, make sure that the FrontPage web's theme (if any) is applied using CSS (only applies to FrontPage 2002 or earlier; FrontPage 2003 always uses CSS for themes).

Allow web site co-management with FrontPage

If you create the new PagePorter web site from an existing FrontPage web, you can set up the project in one of two ways:

• Manage the project from Visual Studio .NET only (unchecked). All of the FrontPage files that were copied over are included in the new PagePorter web site project. Use this option if your goal is to convert the entire site over to Visual Studio .NET.
• Manage the project from Visual Studio .NET and FrontPage (checked). The copied FrontPage files are in the new PagePorter web site project folder, but are not included in the project. Use this option if you want to keep parts of the site managed by FrontPage, and other parts managed by Visual Studio .NET.

Shared Borders

Shared borders are a concept borrowed directly from FrontPage. They allow for a consistent web page layout without resorting to frames. The main difference between FrontPage shared borders and PagePorter shared borders is that FrontPage shared borders are inserted at design-time, and PagePorter shared borders are inserted at run-time from the web server.

Shared Border folder

This is the project-relative folder where the shared border controls reside. You may also place your own web user controls here.

Default borders

These checkboxes are only available when you are creating a PagePorter web site from a template. Checking the top, left, right, and bottom checkboxes will create web user controls for the shared borders that are rendered at run-time.

Security

One of the features of the PagePorter base Page class is that is can enforce security rules on the connection with the browser. These options control the default security features of the pages created in the project.

Default page security

Use the following table to choose the appropriate default page security:

Setting	Description
Don't care	URL requests from the browser are processed without modification.
Force secure (https://hostname)	URL http requests from the browser are redirected using https.
Force insecure (http://hostname)	URL https requests from the browser are redirected using http.

For example, the Force Secure setting can be used to ensure visitors access your secure web site using the https: address.

Hostname

You can use this setting to force a particular hostname on browser requests. This is most commonly used in conjunction with secure sites where the secure server certificate is issued for a particular domain name. For example, the certificate is issued for www.parastream.com and a visitor requests https://parastream.com. Although the web server may be set up to accept both (www may be an alias), the certificate won't be valid. If you set the Hostname to www.parastream.com, the request for https://parastream.com will be immediately redirected to https://www.parastream.com where the certificate is valid.

See Also

Getting Started | Choosing a Programming Language