Can't get wordpress site displaying in Dreamweaver CC (xampp is setup)

Question

Hello. I've been messing around with wordpress and I wanted to get it working in dreamweaver, haven't had much luck. I was present for the techlive conference for working with WP sites in dreamweaver and listened somewhat more casually knowing it will be uploaded to the archives later for me to go back and look at. Unfortunately, it was uploaded to youtube in 480p and is pretty much useless for anyone trying to follow along since the text is completely unreadable.
From what I can tell I have the site and server setup correctly.
I have xampp installed in the default location (C:\xampp).
I downloaded the latest wordpress and extracted the folder to C:\xampp\htdocs
The apache and mysql server in xampp are running
Created a new site in dreamweaver with the local site C:\xampp\htdocs\WPsite\
I set the connection to local/network
Under servers I have the server folder as C:\xampp\htdocs\
Web url as http://localhost
When I try to open the index.php file a dialogue box pops up asking me if I want to update the file on the testing server, I click yes and another dialogue box pops up asking if dependant files should be included in the transfer, I click yes.
After clicking live view I get these errors:
Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-load.php on line 48
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-includes/load.php' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-load.php on line 48
The forward and backslashes are odd. I have not touched absolutely anything in the wordpress folder or in xampp beyond what I listed. What am I doing wrong?
Any help or direction would be appreciated. I used wamp before and I could get the site working and displaying fine in the browser but I don't know how to do it with xampp. I switched over to xampp from wamp since I thought maybe I'd have more luck getting it to work in dreamweaver that way. I had some other errors in dreamweaver when I set it up using wamp.

Answer 1

I've gone through several of those threads and that is not the issue. The index.php file in the root directory is untouched. I have the index.php from the root folder of the WPsite and a clean wordpress download and both are identical.
I don't know if dreamweaver is doing something weird and creating files and folders locally but something weird is going on. I have a wp-content folder inside of htdocs (outside of WPsite folder) and I never created it there. It also seems to have placed or created several php files in the htdocs as well (index.php, wp-blog-header.php, wp-load.php).
I deleted them and opened the index.php file from the root folder, not themes, and it created the blog and index file again. Trying to open up the index.php from the twentytwelve theme folder seems to create the wp-content folder outside of the WPsite folder.
It doesn't seem to be copying all of the necessary files I'm assuming. The wp-content folder outside of the WPsite (htdocs/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve) only had 1 php file, index.php (guessing the one I tried to open) and nothing else inside of it.
The only thing pointing directly to htdocs is the server folder inside of the Server tab when managing a site. Should that be changed to C:\xampp\htdocs\WPsite as well or am I doing something else wrong?