Hi Tim,

Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided with VS2005 to do away with Web Application Projects (which, as in VS2003, were simply projects, the same as everything else in .NET and compiled to DLLs). Apparently there was a huge uproar about this, so they put out a little "fix" that they called WAP (Web Application Projects) as an add-on until they could fix it. VS2005 SP1 put the WAP back in.

So, the question is, are using a Web Application Project for your web app, or simply a Web Application? I was under the impression that a Web Application didn't even build DLLs. I don't actually do Web apps, but I *do* do Web Services, so that amounts to the same thing.

Also, I guess I should say that I haven't totally switched over to VS2008 yet, so the issues may different yet again with a new version (I'm in the process of testing our apps with VS2008, but haven't gotten that far yet ... conversion issues temporarily got in the way).

~~Bonnie


>I am working on a ASP.net application and VS2008. We are being asked about compiling the application as a single dll file like VS2003 originally did. Apparently in VS2005 there were several improvements made and one of those was to compile to several dll files so parts of the web could be recompiled independantly. Is pre-compiling to a single dll an option in VS2008?
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>What is the difference between a Web Project and a Web Application?
>Thanks
>Tim