Re: Big picture question - Web sites vs Web Applications

Just one further note: So far (and I am still looking) I cannot find a
specific reference in the VS 2005 Help (Team edition) for the phrase 'Web
Site Project', either in the index or by search.

"Mark Fitzpatrick" wrote:

That's the general impression most people had, but the Web Site Projects do
have advantages and weren't a bad idea, but most designers who are used to
the Web Application Projects find them more difficult and not worth the
effort. Still, there are a number of great open source apps that are written
with a Web Site Project since the core logic can still be put into an
external class project, avoiding some of the most annoying issues for this
project type.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

"B. Chernick" <BChernick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm getting the impression (correct me if I'm wrong) that Web application
projects are for professionals and web site projects are for amateurs.
Looks like I'll be sticking with web app projects. Thanks.

"Mark Fitzpatrick" wrote:

VS 2005 introduced a new type of project called a Web Site Project. It
doesn't create a single dll for the entire site. Instead, code is
seperated
out more, which leads to some annoying issues. For example, calling code
in
folder b from a page in folder a probably won't work because the code in
folder b may not have compiled yet. To make code available throughout an
entire web site project it has to be in the App_Code directory. This new
project type annoyed a lot of people though so MS introduced the Web
Application Project back into VS first as an add-in, then as part of VS
2005
Service Pack 1. The Web Application Project is natively available in VS
2008.

The Web Application Project works pretty much the same way it did for the
1.x projects created by VS 2002 and 2003. The Web Site Project is more of
an
interesting offshoot and does make it easier for people running VS Web
Developer Express to create a web site since they don't have to compile
it
into a single-dll. Still, I prefer the single-dll method since it's
easier
to pre-compile and if you need to call code that gets compiled into
multiple
dlls you get the inter-dll communication hit.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

"B. Chernick" <BChernick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I did my MCAD sometime ago in 1.1, using the 305 manual. I've since
moved
up
to VS 2005. I've created perhaps a half dozen Dot Net 2.0 web
applications.
(Click on the Create Project link within Recent Projects and Asp.Net
Web
Applications.) Now I find out that my co-worker has been programming
in a
different style. He's been using the File/New/Web Site menu item. If
I
ever
noticed that option, I've forgotten it.

Could someone briefly summarize the differences between web 'sites' and
web
'applications'? (I thought all web sites were web applications.)

(My immediate motivation for posting here is that my coworker
approached
me
for help, since his website is giving 'AccessViolationException'
errors,
but
he swears that he has no unmanaged code that he knows of. It also
looks
to
me like the web site has no references at all, if that's even possible,
so
I'm even more confused.)



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