Add asp.net pages into sharepoint

Question

How to add or open the asp.net pages from inside sharepoint? I found many info on the web about that, but they all fail or they are not clear. I appreciate your help :)

Answer 1

Your question is not clear, but if you want to customize look'n'feel of SharePoint page you should use SharePoint Designer.

In case you want to create some additional functionality from scratch the easiest way is to create a custom web part and then add it to a SharePoint page.

Answer 2

I think you want to include an aspx page to call either using an AJAX include or to be able to use the MOSS Object Model without having to add references etc?

if so then the following steps are necessary:

1. navigate to 12\layouts\
2. create a folder for the asp.net files
3. put the inline code files in
4. From sharepoint you can add a page viewer web part and reference it with the following url _Layouts//Filename.aspx

This technique will only work with inline code, if you wish to compile your code then you would create the site as normal and then add an application folder within the virtual directory of that particular site for example my site is called intranet:

1. navigate to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\intranet
2. add your asp.net folder to this as a sub folder
3. in inetmgr right click the folder and create an application for it (use the same app pool as the sharepoint site)
4. ensure ALL DLLs from the sharepoint site bin folder exist within the apps bin folder or it will throw an error.

However, I would only ever use these methods as proof of concept and would ultimately use web parts, custom features and workflows to carry out the same functions.