visual web developer 2008 express - code behind?

[James]

not sure if I'm using the right terminolgy but I messed around with VS 2005
a couple years ago and the web apps I make encapsulated all the .net code in
a dll file. Will this express edition do this or is that one of the
limitations?

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

What is the final goal?

Stand alone library?
You are best to refactor into a class library. For this, you will need one
of the other express products.

or Website in a box? ;-)
You can create web applications or web sites. At the extreme end of the
spectrum, you can have a web application compile all code, including tags,
into a DLL. It will still have .aspx files, but they will be empty except
for a pointer to the DLL.