Project-Based Development and Projectless-Based Development
Introduction
Web Project can be developed of two types
a) Projectless Based Development
b) Project Based Development or web project
Project less Based Development
Creating websites of this form is called project less applications. It has its own advantages over Project Based Development.
The advantages include
a) It simplifies deployment: We can simply copy the files in the website directory to the web server.
b) It simplifies file management: Adding , deleting and moving files is very easy u can just delete, add or move a web page ,there is no need to go through Visual Studio or edit the project file.
c) It simplifies team collaboration: Each team can work independently on different pages.
d) It simplifies debugging: Creating a web project ,you must recompile the entire application when you change a single file With project less development, each
page is compiled separately, and the page is only compiled when you request it for the first time.
Project Based Development or Web Project
Creating project of this form is called Project Based Development or simply Web Project. If we create application of this form Visual Studio generates a number of extra files, including .csproj and .csproj.user project files and .sln solution file.
When you build your application, Visual Studio generates temporary files, which is places in the Obj subdirectory, and one or more .pdb files (in the Bin subdirectory) with debugging symbols. None of these files should be deployed to the web server when your web application is complete. Furthermore, none of the C# source code files (files with the extension .cs) should be deployed, because Visual Studio recompiles them into a DLL assembly.
However both are same once they are deployed to the web server,but they differ in their structure .The difference include
a) Compilation: Web projects are compiled by Visual Studio and not ASP.NET when they run. All the web pages classes is combined into a single assembly that has the name of web project(like web project.dll);
b) Code-behind: The web pages also uses code behind file however they include one additional file with an extension .aspx.designer.cs.
c) Assembly references: In a project less website ,all the assembly references are recorded in the web.config file
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