>>You can't get a completely empty site in Visual Studio, but close to it.
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>>* Use New -> Web Site
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>>This will create an empty folder with only a web.config in it. You do want to leave that as it is the configuration for the site/folder. The default doesn't do anything and you can probably leave it out if you really only load static pages, but if you add any code the file is needed. It also can be used to configure IIS settings locally (default documents, permissions etc.)
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>>Even simpler is this though:
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>>* Create a new empty folder on disk
>>* In VS use Open -> Web Site
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>>This will open your folder in VS without adding anything else. FWIW, this works on any existing folder.
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>>I'd also recommend you check out Visual Studio 2017. It has a feature where you can just open a folder as a folder (not a site) which removes all the compiler related stuff and messages as well as the new item dialogs for simpler and quicker methods to add and manipulate files on disk. It loads very quick even for large sites and doesn't have any sort of project associated with it. Then again if you do that you could even use Visual Studio code which follows that same mantra (and would be my tool of choice when editing HTML content directly).
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>Thank you. As long as VS 2017 can co-exist with VS 2015, I will download and install it.


It can, but VS 2015 can open and share VS 2015 projects so generally there's no need to have both unless you're using some specific feature that has been discontinued.

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