Where is the generated DLL?

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Nathan Sokalski

I have a WebSite created by clicking Create Web Site. but when I click Build
Web Site I cannot find a dll anywhere. I even did a search of my entire hard
drive, and did not find it. What's going on here?
 
J

jacky kwok

Nathan said:
I have a WebSite created by clicking Create Web Site. but when I click Build
Web Site I cannot find a dll anywhere. I even did a search of my entire hard
drive, and did not find it. What's going on here?


A "Web Site" project will not generate any "DLL". You can know the
detail of a "Web Site" project in MSDN document.

If "DLL" output is necessary, using the "Web Application" project in
VS2005(SP1 only) or VS2008.
 
J

Jeff Winn

Hello Nathan,

Web site projects don't work like the old web application projects did. When
compiled each page generates their own assembly (this is the most common
setting). That being said, they usually use a random generated name for each
of the assemblies needed. Currently the assemblies that are generated for
the web site projects i work with are located in the Temporary ASP.NET Files
folder under my user profile. If you do need to generate a single dll for
the site, I believe web deployment projects are capable of producing a
single output assembly for the site.

Not really sure why you'd need the site to generate a single assembly, just
create a seperate class library project for anything you want to share
between other applications and your site.

If you need any further clarification, don't hesitate to ask.

- Jeff
 
D

daveh551

Hello Nathan,

Web site projects don't work like the old web application projects did. When
compiled each page generates their own assembly (this is the most common
setting). That being said, they usually use a random generated name for each
of the assemblies needed. Currently the assemblies that are generated for
the web site projects i work with are located in the Temporary ASP.NET Files
folder under my user profile. If you do need to generate a single dll for
the site, I believe web deployment projects are capable of producing a
single output assembly for the site.

Not really sure why you'd need the site to generate a single assembly, just
create a seperate class library project for anything you want to share
between other applications and your site.

If you need any further clarification, don't hesitate to ask.

- Jeff

If you do a "Publish Website", it will also generate a single DLL for
the entire site. It will usually be located in a "Precompiled Web"
folder under your project folder, and the DLL will be in the bin
directory of that folder, probably called "App_Code.dll" The
PrecompiledWeb folder is basically an image that you can FTP to your
hosting server.
 
J

John Saunders

As many have replied, web sites aren't projects, so they don't build a DLL.
My solution to this problem is to never use a Web Site.
 
D

daveh551

As many have replied, web sites aren't projects, so they don't build a DLL.
My solution to this problem is to never use a Web Site.

I'm kinda learning by trial and error, but I found (with VS 2005) that
Web Applications lacked some of the development features in VS that
Websites had. For example, the "ASP.NET Configuration" that brings up
the Website Administration tool for a website didn't seem to work
right (or wasn't even offered - I can't remember) when used with a Web
Application. And when I added code files to the App_Code directory of
a web application, I had a dickens of time getting them to be included
in the build. Setting "trace" in the web.config file didn't seem to
work consistently for a Web Application. A bunch of other little
things.

But it was a shocker when I loaded my Website to my hosting platform
and discovered that it was re-compiling everything on the fly,
sometimes with build errors that were not present when building under
VS. That's when somebody told me about "Publish Website", which DOES
do a build to .dll. So that's what I do now.
 

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