>Hi Tim,
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>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.
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>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.
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>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).
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>~~Bonnie
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Hi Bonnie,
I have several web applications in VS2005 that were done the VS2005 way. I have an existing web app I am working on in VS2008 that was also not a Web Application Project. I just completed the conversion to switch it over. It wasn't too bad.

The non project type will compile to dll's, but typically to several dll's. If you set it as updateable it will not compile the aspx pages. You can set the compile to create dll's based on the class (I believe) and get even more dll's. I do not think you can get a single dll. That is where the project comes in.

I only know these things because I found a pretty good link that talks about it.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/08/VS-2005-Web-Application-Project-V1.0-Released.aspx
Tim

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>>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