DLL vs. no DLL

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From: BobRoyAce (bob_at_omegasoftwareinc.com)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:55:24 -0500

I am a total newbie to the .NET web development arena and have a basic
question. I have inherited a .NET web application, written with C# in
code-behind pages. The way that the application currently works involves
having the various .aspx pages up on the server together with a single
compiled DLL that I assume contains the compiled version of all of the
code-behind files for all of the pages together with whatever else. The
problem I'm having is that, by looking at the server, I have no idea what
the actual code behind the pages is since it's all compiled into the DLL.
So, though I know it must be a slight performance hit, I'm thinking it would
be nice to be able to put the .cs files up on the server, together with the
.aspx files, and then, if I need to change a .cs file, I can do so and
simply put the new file up on the server and be done with it. Then, I would
guess, the first time the page is accessed, the server would have to compile
the new .cs (can it even do this?).

There are really two issues I'm trying to address here:
1) I want to be able to know for sure, by just looking at code files on the
server, what code is behind the pages.
2) I want to be able to change a single .cs file and put the changes up on
the server without needing to recompile and distribute a single DLL. This
way, I can be sure I didn't inadvertently introduce unwanted changes
elsewhere into the DLL (e.g. may have changed another page's code). In this
way, I could easily isolate the changes I'm pushing up to the server.

I'm certainly welcome to hearing about what I'm missing, if anything, here.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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