The Web Site project is compiled on the fly. You end up with a lot more DLL
files, which can be a pain. It also gives problems when you have pages or
controls in one directory that need to reference pages and controls in
another directory since the other directory may not be compiled into code
yet. Another problem can be in publishing. If VS isn't told to re-use the
same names constantly, it will come up with new names for the dll files
generated by pages all the time. That can lead to having several close
copies of dlls containing the same class name, which will generate plenty of
errors. The Web Site project was introduced with VS 2005, but has turned out
not to be extremely popular.
The Web Application Project was created as an add-in and now exists as part
of SP 1 for VS 2005. The main differences are the Web Application Project
was designed to work similar to the Web projects that shipped with VS.net
and VS 2003. It will compile the application into a single dll at build
time. In order to update the project it must be recompiled and the dll
published for changes to occur. Another nice feature of the Web Application
project is it's much easer to exclude files from the project view. In the
Web Site project, each file that you exclude is renamed with an exclude
keyword in the filename. In the Web Application Project, the project just
keeps track of which files to include/exclude from the project view without
renaming them, making things much tider.
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Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006
"Hafner Avi" <ha****@technion.ac.ilwrote in message
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Hi,
I am trying to find out what is the difference between Web-Site and
Web-Application-Project in Visual Studio 2005 ?
People - what do you recommend ?
Thanks
Avi