Precompile ASP.NET

toString · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:10

I can make an aspx page, and get it to work in IIS. I'm now interested in precompiling (to .dll?) it and getting it working on IIS.

I looked on here, but this doesn't really help. Does anyone know of a good walkthrough?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227976.aspx

I managed to complie it, I think. But I'm unsure how to get it running on IIS?

Any help would be great!

growse · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:29

<Assuming c# for everything>

The way I understood it was that you develop the .NET app like any other .NET app, but you have .cs files containing the actual code, and .aspx pages which are just 'fronts' for the code. When you build the project in VS.NET, you get a dll in the bin directory and then the aspx pages that go with it. These can then be copied onto a production server.

Isn't that how you build standard ASP.NET projects?

toString · 30 Aug 2006 at 23:37

Ahhh Thanks so much. Got it working now. Makes sense. For some reason I assumed the .aspx files would be in this .dll.........

durr.

Also never saw that 'build' option! :rolleyes:

So don't need to mess around with the command prompt. Thought that was a bit weird as VS does just about everything but make the tea.

therubble · 31 Aug 2006 at 10:18

if ** using 2005 I would just copy all the files up and makesure that the site is not running in debug mode, it will then compile the application on the server, also it will enable you to update small areas of the site without the whole app domain restarting as individual directories are compiled into there own DLL.