Re: Maintaining ASP.NET Sites

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An ASP application goes very easy to a complete mess...
Having source code with the page code is a thing that is being avoided in
many plataforms on these days, MVC is an attempt to improve this.
If you really can't access the source code and really need to change it, you
can do a "prohibited" operation, but that solves your problem if the DLL is
not obsfucated.
The key word in google is: Reflector

"Raymond" <nothere@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3jSxf.37$MG1.28@xxxxxxxxxxx
> They say it's easier, but has anyone tried
> maintaining an ASP.NET site without the
> source code of the dlls? This was not a problem
> with classic ASP, all the code was almost always
> just in text files, easily viewable and most importantly
> readily AVAILABLE on the site, to anyone access to
> the site's folder.
>
> But just imagine, bunch of companies out there, managed
> by non-technical people, who have had a bunch of outside
> developers doing work on their site. At the
> end of the day, they have several dlls sitting in the bin folder,
> and no source code or project files available. Now you're a new
> developer hired to fix bugs and extend the site. How do you
> maintain these sites now without the source code of the codebehind
> files? How do you understand them? Yes, you can add to it, yes even
> extend the classes. But how do you fix bugs in the dlls without the
> source code??? How do you even understand what the code does
> exactly without the source code??? It's a nightmare!
>
> In this respect I think classic ASP is way superior to ASP.NET.
>
>


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