Multi-Developer ASP.net Project - Only 1 Project DLL?

[Brian Patrick]

Our company is making the switch from ASP to ASP.net, but we've noticed a
significant problem.

With ASP, developers could check out individual pages, make changes and
check those pages back in without affecting other developers.

With ASP.net, developers can check out individual pages, but if they need to
change the "code behind", this requires the 1 project dll to be re-compiled.
So for example, developer #1 changes the code behind of page 1, and
recompiles the project. Now, developer #2, changes the code behind of page
2, and recompiles the project. As you can see, the changes that developer
#1 has made are now lost.

There must be a proper way to do have multi-developer developement with an
ASP.net project. Does anyone have any insight to this problem?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Your web project Publish options in ASP.NET 2.0 provide for an updateable
project where each page gets its own assembly, allowing for individual
developers to change a single page without the requirement to rebuild the
entire project.
In ASP.NET 1.1 you basically need to recompile the project since everything
is in a single assembly. However, it really is no big deal to copy over the
newly built assembly to the /bin folder along with the revised page.

As long as individual developers on your team have learned how to work
together in a source-control environment, I fail to see why this is such a
problem. There is a SourceSafe whitepaper up on MSDN about Team Development
that you can read if you need more info.

Peter