In a new WebApplication2 project, the goal was to move controls around.  this was done by trying to drag/drop them but it only made the resulting form jumbled and a mess.

i found out about relative or absolute positioning, and moved some controls around, this made it a worse mess.

I then opened a new webapplication4 project and copied the default.aspx from that new one, into the project2 one.  still a garbled mess but different.  some regions are black and moving the mouse over them makes a red circle with line.  went to the source and deleted these parts, still a mess.  copied the master file into the project2, rebuilt and still a mess.

Is there a way to recover the main default and other pages?

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