How to add aspx.cs file expression web 4

Question

Hello,

When I tried to add aspx file in solution from Expression web 4, aspx.cs file was excluded.

How  can I add aspx.cs file in solution.

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I am able to add the same using VS2012.

But once I opened the solution in VS 2012, It is not letting me to open it again in Express web 4.

Answer 1

This is probably better asked / answered in the asp.net forum:
http://forums.asp.net/

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Expression Web MVP

Answer 2

Sorry, but EW is a design tool, with limited support for ASP.NET. Code behind is not supported by Expression Web, at all. All coding is in-page in Expression Web. If you want to use code behind, you will have to use VWD or VS.

cheers,
scott

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Answer 3

EW doesn't know about .cs files.  It uses the single page model, not the code behind model. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/015103yb(v=vs.100).aspx )

You can certainly add the file yourself, by creating it by hand, but EW won't do it for you.

For more advanced asp.net, you'd use a different tool.  EW supports what I think of as "asp.net light".  Sometimes that's all you need.  But often a different tool is better for the actual asp.net coding, if what you are doing is more cumbersome than would make sense in a single page model.