http://msmvps.com/blogs/rexiology/archive/2006/04/16/91222.aspxcrosspost from http://rextang.net/blogs/work/ Just had a further reading of the migration from ASP.NET 1.1 website to ASP.NET 2.0 one. ScottGu's post listed his Web Application Project , which is a good resource for understanding these topics. In ScottGuenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/rexiology/archive/2006/04/16/91222.aspx#105940Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:41:10 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:105940Madalina Indeed if you make a Web Site Project that is in fact the only option provided with the original release you will not have access to the code behind. But there is this <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default.aspx</a> (Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects) update and if you make a Web Application Project in the page structure you will find &nbsp;next to the aspx and aspt.cs files also the file.aspx.designer.cs/vb file. In native 2005 projects too.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=105940" width="1" height="1">