| daveh551 2008-04-17, 7:35 pm |
| What, from a high level point of view, is the difference (in Visual
Studio 2005) between Website (accessed with Open Website or Create
Website from the StartPage) that is an ASP.NET Website, and a Project
that is created with the "ASP.NET Application" template?
I see some obvious differences: the Project creates the working folder
under the Visual Studio 2005\Projects directory, while the Website
creates it in the Inetpub\wwwroot directory. And there are some more
subtle differences that I don't understand as well. The project
creates some .cs (in C#) files for a lot of the things that the
website does not (e.g., in the Website, there is no .cs file generated
for DataSets (.xsd files), and theres no <page>.designer.cs file
generated for pages). The project uses different namespace
definitions for the same files in the same relative directory
positions. And it seems that some of the web administration tools (the
whole Website menu, including "Copy Web") is missing when you're
working with a project. Also, it appears (I'm not sure) that the
compiled code for the website is never stored (it seems to be being
regenerated on the fly when I access the website.)
I see these differences, but I don't understand why they're there or
to what purpose they are there. Can someone explain it to me?
Thanks.
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