How do I resurrect an old asp.net website (not webapp)

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User297437924 posted

I had an asp.net project that I backed up periodically.    I still have it, but the 'solution file' is stored by Visual Studio in a different folder than the code, and I never realized I should back that up too.   So now I've lost the solution file, but I still have the asp.net pages.

I can't just create a new solution and import all the pages, because the old site was a 'web site' not a web application.   I did get advice on this forum to install extra features of Visual Studio that would let me create earlier types of solution files, which I did, but that won't compile a website properly either.

I do see choices such as:

ASP.NET EMPTY WEB SITE

and 

ASP.NET WEB FORMS SITE

I started just now again to create the first (empty web site) and add the pages to it, and then add nuget packages that apply.   But for example, in the following code:

Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Globalization
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Web
Imports Microsoft.AspNet.Identity
Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework
Imports Microsoft.Owin.Security.DataProtection
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Imports Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin

Public Class TravisIOroutines
    Private Shared Provider As DpapiDataProtectionProvider = New DpapiDataProtectionProvider("rateForSuccess")

    Private Shared userManager As New ApplicationUserManager
    Private Shared roleManager As New ApplicationRoleManager

    Public Shared Function getUserManager() As ApplicationUserManager
        Return userManager
    End Function

    Public Shared Function DeleteUser(ByVal username As String) As Boolean
        Dim ir As IdentityResult
        Dim user = GetUserByName(username)

        ir = userManager.Delete(user)  ' THIS WILL NOT COMPILE

        If ir.Succeeded Then
            Return True
        Else
            Return False
        End If
    End Function

"userManager.delete'  will not compile.   'usermanger' has no 'delete' method.

Any help is appreciated.