Webforms of my website are lost

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Hello,

I'm a beginner in .net .
I have recently made a project on "online examination project" using .net . After I done designing and coding it, I build the project and run it.

It was working fine at that time. Even after some days, it was working fine.

Then one day I just changed my this project's location to another folder in the same drive by "cut-paste".
Now , I found that all the webforms of my project are missing.
There is .cs file of every page , but the webforms are missing. I don't know what to do. Its my first project and now its gone.
I really need help.
If anyone has a way of how to recover my original project then please tell me.

Posted 10-Oct-12 3:26am

Rahul 78

Updated 10-Oct-12 3:32am

Estys

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I.explore.code 10-Oct-12 10:51am

this is why you should always have back-up of all your projects secured in an external hard-drive synced with cloud and locked away in shock-proof vault with the key embedded in your skin. Anyway, can you search for "*.aspx" first in your solution folder and if unsuccessful then in your drive? If you find them, I would recommend creating a new solution and add all of them into it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 11:00am

Not backup. Put under Revision Control System. These days, such project could be open-source (and should be, to trust it), extremely light-weight, non-intrusive, well supported and very reliable. Not using one for any kind of development (even for writing some documents) is ridiculous.
--SA

I.explore.code 10-Oct-12 11:20am

agreed!

Rahul 78 10-Oct-12 13:58pm

@Sergey- Thanks for your reply, the matter is resolved. But I would like to know about this "Revision Control System". Please acknowledge me.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 15:17pm

Sure, please see my answer. Ask some follow-up question is you want.
--SA

Rahul 78 10-Oct-12 13:56pm

Thanks, it helped me. The matter is resolved and I learned that now I should have a backup of all my files to avoid these types of happenings. Now I will save a copy of each files into my external hard drive. thanks

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[In response to the question on Revision Control systems:]

Please see first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revision_control_software[^].

Please see this discussion:
Revision control systems, which to choose from?[^].

And my past answers:
Needs some words of wisedom to set up and/or use a server[^],
Make an unclickable form[^],
How can i structured to arrange source code when i create a new solution[^].

—SA

Posted 10-Oct-12 9:15am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10T05:37:00

Solution 1

Then one day I just changed my this project's location to another folder in the same drive by "cut-paste".
Now , I found that all the webforms of my project are missing.
Sorry but AFAIK, you cannot get it back. It's gone. Re-write whatever you have lost.

Posted 10-Oct-12 5:37am

Sandeep Mewara

bbirajdar · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10T07:55:00

Solution 3

Try to recover it using data recovery tool http://www.piriform.com/recuva[^]
Although the success rates are low for files deleted long time ago....

Posted 10-Oct-12 7:55am

bbirajdar

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-12 15:16pm

According to OP's information, it's not obvious that any files were lost. It looks like the project was non-movable; with some absolute paths or something like that.
--SA