为新的 WEB 项目重用已发布的旧 ASP.NET 代码

Question

I have old VS ASP.NET project that published on GoDaddy web site.
Unfortunately I lost my local source code. Now I decided to continue with this project.
I downloaded all files.

I already tried:

1. Create new Project from existing code using VS2019. Output type - Console Application. I restored all references and packages. I can't start this project to run as web project.
2. Create new ASP.NET Web Application project and added existing project. My new project starts, but I need to run the old one.
   What is correct way to accomplish it?
   
   Thanks in advance!
   Arkady

Answer 1

Try opening the folder as a web site, and NOT open as application (since you don't have a sln project file anyway.

Hence use/try this option:

If the folder of files you downloaded does have source code files, then you be ok.

However, if this was published as a web site application, then all source code is pre-compiled and stripped out. If that is the case, then you need the origional project.

However, if it was published as a asp.net web site

and NOT as

asp.net web site application?

Then you should be ok.

You know instant when you open a particular web page in the site - if you can view code, then your are fine. If you don't have the source code, and don't see it, then this was published as a web site application, and thus source code was stripped and only the compiled output in the bin file was published along with the mark-up pages, but as such no code files are published to the server (some exceptions exist such as app_code, but in general, you MUST have the original source files and project if this was a web site application as opposed to just a web site.