Thanks for your reply - that certainly helps my understanding.
Let me reward you with a little comedy:
The webapp in question is basically a long form that users fill out and upon
hitting "submit" they will receive an automated email response indicating
that the form info has been passed on as appropriate. The firm that built
this webapp chose to do this in code rather than, say, as an actual email
autoresponse. Why is this a problem? Because they did it in code that is, as
you confirmed for me, now sitting in a dll along with, I'm certain, the code
from numerous other codebehind files. Why is it funny? Because I have been
given the "very simple" task of changing our company name in the
autoresponse email.
Let's see ... which would I rather do:
1) Change company name in an Outlook autoresponse template?
OR
2) Reverse engineer a dll to determine (if it's even possible) what source
files were compiled into it, alter the source file in question, and
recompile all affected source files back into the dll?
Hmmm ... tough choice.
Anyway, thanks to all for responding. I appreciate it.
"Roland Dick" <br*****@web.dewrote in message
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Hi chabuhi,
chabuhi schrieb:
>Is it possible (sorry if this is a stupid question) that all of the .cs
codebehinds are compiled into a .dll or something? The only reason I ask
yes, that's possible; specifically, in DLLs in the bin directory under
your application root. That makes sense, because it means the code is
precompiled and performs faster than say ASP classic or PHP which is
interpreted every time it is called; and also, many companies selling
webapplications for money naturally don't want anybody to see the code.
Hope this helps,
Roland
