Creating an ASP.NET Web Application in a physical folder of your choice
When you create a new ASP.NET Web Application, VS.NET by default creates a folder with the specified application name under the Visual Studio Projects folder (typically under :\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects), and a folder with the same name under :\Inetpub\wwwroot. In the first folder it creates just the solution files (.sln and .suo), while all the ASP.NET project's source files (.aspx, .vb, .config etc.) go into the second folder.
However, you usually want to keep all your projects under a common folder, and have the source files together with the solution files (so that's easier to move everything to another computer, for example), whether they are Windows or Web application, and thus don't like VS.NET's default behavior. It would be preferable to have the possibility to specify a virtual and a physical folder when you create the web application, but unfortunately this is not possible from the New Project dialog window.
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