Hi ASP.NET 2.0, where is my bin DLL? | The Coffeehouse

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

I'm starting my first serious ASP.NET 2.0 project and found that it's not creating a {Site}\bin\MyProj.dll file and that it requires the .cs files...

This is cool and all, but I'm not comfortable putting source code out there...

I read that there's a pre-compile util, but that needs to be ran on the production server... and you still need the .cs files...

Is there a way to build the ASP.NET 2.0 project like how VS2003 did it?

With the bin DLL?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Ah did you do Create > New Web Site?

Throw that away. Do Create > New Solution > ASP.NET Website. Then, when you compile, you get a lovely single DLL.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to blowdart

#Jul 29th @ 6:34 AM

I think you mean "ASP.NET Web Application".

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

In reply to blowdart

#Jul 29th @ 6:34 AM

YES! That was it! Thanks Blowdart

Looks like "New Web Site" is meant for small, quick, xcopy web projects

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to W3bbo

#Jul 29th @ 6:55 AM

I did, yes, sorry!

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to Minh

#Jul 29th @ 7:27 AM

I think it was aimed at classic asp style building with the runtime compilation model and various other concepts that in reality made website projects terrible.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to stevo_

#Jul 29th @ 7:47 AM

I thought it was more to do with lowering the barrier-to-entry (with "Web Developer Express"); except it made life harder for everyone else. I remember having to wait 6 months or so before ScottGu released the official Web Applications add-on for VS2005. I think they were trying to pitch VS as a competitor to Dreamweaver, even though (IMO) that's like Mercedes-Benz trying to compete with Skoda.

And I note that VS2008 still lacks FPSE support for Web Applications that VS2003 had, yet uses it fine for Web Sites.

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to W3bbo

#Jul 29th @ 8:01 AM

Yes well thats what I meant by being more like classic asp, the potential audience would be people who did php and asp etc, and making it as close to what they knew was a good way to lower that barrier to entrry.