Is there a way to precompile only a file of choice in a web site (using fixed names), instead of the whole site? e.g. : If I have a user control MyUserControl.ascx, only precompile this file?
Yes, you can compile .ascx files. They can be complied into dll files and can be referenced into your project.
for that you need to put the ascx and its cs file in a new web project, and complile it into a dll using Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (if I remember correctly).
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In the old asp.net project, there is a published .cs file in one of the folders. When I update the site, I update the .dll files, but this file is never updated. When I delete this .cs, the site does not work. How do I delete this file?
Are you using a asp.net web site applcation to publish, or are you using a asp.net web site?
As a general rule, if you using asp.net web site applcation, then the source code files are NOT required to be up-loaded.
However, you left out one big detail. Where is that cs file? While a asp.net web site will attempt and does pre-compile all code, ONE BIG exception to this rule exists.
That is the folder app_code. That folder is in fact compiled by IIS, and as a result, if that file is in that folder, it will have to be included in your publish.
In fact, when I started using the newer Roslyn compiler (I liked it VERY much for allowing me to have longer free text such as SQL in the code as strings).
However, IIS did not and does not have Roslyn compile by default. And my code was breaking.
So, as a result, I simple create my own folder called MyCode. And you could do the same. Note that each code module (vb.net) or static class for your general shared code routines do have to be marked manually as to compile.
eg this:
So, if your .cs file is in app_code, then you can move it out, drop it into a folder you create, and set the file build action to compile, and of course do not copy.
However, and this is a HUGE big "if". If your deployment model is web site as opposed to web site applcation, then this will not work, since IIS is doing your compile after deployment, as opposed to pre-compiling the code BEFORE deployment.
So, you are in luck if your .cs file is (or was) in app_code, since then as noted, you can move that out of app_code, and in properties set the file to be compiled, but not deployed. This as noted will only work if you deploying as a asp.net web site applcation as opposed to a asp.net web site.
I got a asp.net website from my client that need to be modified. The problem is that the old company was uploading the project as a release which means no code but a sinlge dll file.
We can make a single dll file the project type is web application not a website!!
Can you adivse how to publish sinlgle dll fiel.
Regards,
Moayyad
If you want a single DLL, then convert your website into a web application. Once you convert, everything inside your project will be compiled into a single DLL file.But still, any external assemblies will be inside their own DLL files.
I've got a ASP.NET project without the .proj file. How do I recreate the project file, so I can work on it on my machine?
Is this possbile?
Are you sure it's not a Web Site Project, as opposed to a Web Application Project? Web Site projects do not have project files - you open a folder rather than a project file. See here for the differences between the two.
To check, each page of a Web Application project will have a .aspx, a .aspx.cs and a .aspx.designer.cs, whereas the Web Site project pages don't have the designer files.
You can create a new project and then you can use the "Add Existing Item" and add each of your files (you can select multiple files).
EDIT:
Or your can drag and drop the files into the "Solution Explorer"
First of all, you need to run VS2005 SP1 or later. In VS2005, they removed the project file. They reintroduced it again in SP1.
If you don't have a project file, your project is called a "Web Site". If you have a project file, it's a "Web Application". One difference between the two is also that in a web application, you compile all code-behind files to a single .dll. In a web site, each code behind file goes in its own dll (or are compiled dynamically at runtime)
I believe that if you right click the project in solution explorer, there is a "Convert To Web Application" menu item.
Note, you must rename the App_Code folder to something else, otherwise it will be compiled both at compile time, and at runtime.
Personally I much prefer web applications to web sites
I'm using a Web Deployment Project in Visual Studio 2008 in order to prepare my ASP.NET application (ASP.NET web application, not ASP.NET web site) for being copied to several servers. I have to copy the files on local staging servers, on different servers via FTP and sometimes I have to fetch them from customers' servers.
So, it would be nice to have all files for deployment in a compact form without the necessity of doing a lot of comparing between source and destination. Web deployment projects have this nice feature: compile all your aspx and ascx files into a single (additional) assembly.
I somehow found out how to get rid of aspx placeholder files on the server, now I'd like to know if there is a (maybe self-made) way to get rid of these .compiled files.
From Rick Strahl's blog:
The .Compiled file is a marker file
for each page and control in the Web
site and identifies the class used
inside of the assembly. These files
are not optional as they map the ASPX
pages to the appropriate precompiled
classes in the precompiled assemblies.
If you remove the .Compiled file, the
page that it maps will not be able to
execute and you get a nasty execution
error.
Anybody out there with a creative idea, maybe using a module/handler which intercepts the check against the .compiled files in the bin folder?
The .compile file comes from pre-compiling on deployment. So you basically have 3 options:
Keep the .compiled file
Don't pre-compile and deploy source code
Turn this in to a Web Application instead of a Web Site and compile as an assembly
I have run in to the same problem myself. I actually choose #1 in most cases when dealing with deployment of Web Sites, but on the rare occasion when I know I am going to have to maintain the site for an extended period of time, I take the time to upgrade it to a Web Application.
I don't like the .compiled files either, but nobody gets hurt if they're there. So why bother?
You might want to take a look at Virtual Path Providers (KB how to here) in ASP.NET.
Credit for this suggestion must go to Cheeso and his self answered question here:
Can I get “WAR file” type deployment with ASP.NET?
I don't know about the .compiled files, but you could set up your servers to update their files with subversion instead of manually copying the files when you compile.
So you would compile the files using the Web deployment project (not into a single assembly), put them in a repository you created for this purpose, and on each server, just do an svn update to fetch and compare the files automatically.
I know it's not what you asked for directly, but it may be a path to explore.
Add "Exclude Filter" to your deployment project:
In the Deployment Project.
Right Click on Content Files.
Click on "Exclude Filter".
Add "*.Compiled"
click OK.
and thats it.
I remember at the days when I cant do Web Application with VWD Express, I use nant script to compile the project into a single dll and deploy, that would work (so I dont need the full VS to do dll deployment too), so if you really don't want to mess your project to Web Application, maybe this is a path to check too.
You can get rid of the .compiled files by using the aspnet_merge tool with the -r option.
Removes the .compiled files for the main code assembly (code in the App_Code folder). Do not use this option if your application contains an explicit type reference to the main code assembly.
If you publish your code as updateable (in publish settings) these files are generated. Uncheck that value and republish. This is an old question I know, but no answers are clearly defined for this here.
I want to deploy my web application (asp.net mvc), and I need to remove all the codebehind files from my project.
Any scripts that you guys know of to do this?
I prefer using a script since I can tweak it if need be.
Just select the publish web site option on your project and it should take care of that (if you use vs).
Menu Build/Publish Website
In Visual Sudio, right click your project and select Publish... in the appearing dialog, select "Only files needed, to run this application".
The Publishing wizard will compile all codebehind files to your assembly and remove them for publishing.
I'd recommend using a web deployment project. This will compile your website and copy all of the files needed to for deployment into a new folder (without code-behind files, as they don't need to be deployed). You also get a little more control this way, as you can set up pre-build and post-build events.
For instance, I've set up a post-build event on the web deployment project to execute a batch file which copies some files into the Debug/Release folder and then zips it up, ready for FTP'ing to the production server.
First, codebehind files are not recommended for ASP.NET MVC. Codebehind is the controller for ASP.NET standard files - but in ASP.NET MVC you have far more powerful controllers.
Second, why do you need to remove codebehind files? IIS / MVC / Web.config should be taking care of ensuring that *.cs etc. files do not get served and result in a 404.