How to add .aspx page in sharepoint 2010 project with visual studio 2012?

Question

I went through following links:

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/312544/How-To-Add-Custom-ASP-NET-Page-Using-Layouts-Folde

http://sharepointsolution2010.blogspot.in/2011/05/add-custom-aspx-page-in-sharepoint-2010.html

Is this a right way to add .aspx page?

My requirement is to show custom list data into an .aspx page, that will require code behind to.

Alert email will have a link to open this .aspx page.

What is the right way to add .aspx page? as no direct option available in VS2012.

Answer 1

Not 100% sure about Visual Studio 2012, but in Visual Studio 2008 & 2010, I had to modify "....csproj" and add a Projecttypes Guids for web projects to make this project web anf let me add ".aspx" or any other web related contents to project.

here's link to few known ProjectTypeGuids

Hope it helps :)

Answer 2

I have an option in VS2012 to add an Application Page to the project. But it requires your project to be Farm Solution. Otherwise, you can't deploy to SharePoint hive (cause you need to place page to _layouts folder to have codebehind).

Also you can install CKS DEV to have more option for adding new items in SP project.

Answer 3

Why don't you make a Visual Web Part and deploy everything on a Web Part Page? Create a Web Part Page from SharePoint...

You can see here is explained the difference between using a Web Part and Application Pages

You can achieve everything you need in a Visual Web Part, I hope this helps