When you use the File -> New Project or File -> New Web Site menu commands within VS 2010, you'll see a "New Project" dialog like below that allows you to filter by language and application type and select different project templates to use when creating new projects:

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VS 2010 ships with "empty" project templates for creating new ASP.NET applications – which will create minimal projects with just the bare essentials needed to get going.  My last post in this series included a screenshot that shows what the "Empty ASP.NET Web Application" project template creates when you use it to start a new application.