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Hi,

I recently started working with VS 2005 Professional and still work with VS
2003 and recognizing that things have changed I have a few questions about
the build and publish features in VS 2005 vs the build function in VS2003. I
just can not wrap my head around how it would work in real life, so please
bear with me.

In VS 2003 when you do a build (ASP.NET) you get your code (behind) compiled
into a dll, and if you use additional projects which compile in a dll too,
they will be placed in your bin dir. The you could place the bin folder plus
your ASPX pages on a production server and you were done.

1) Am I correct in understanding that in VS2005 you publish your source code
on a production server as it will be dynamically compiled?

2) Is it still possible to get your dll, and place this plus your aspx pages
on the production server?

3) Am I correct in understanding that when you use the publish feature in
VS2005, it copies everything from your source directory to the production
server and overwrite everything what was there no matter what?

4) When you use the copy web site feature, the source directory is really
your source directory instead of the location where you had build the web
site.

5) Am I correct in understanding that it is now acceptable to place your
source code on a production server?

Well, I guess you can see by now that I am totally confused, and I hope you
can find the time to show me the light. Don't get me wrong I love the new VS
IDE but I fail to understand how the compilation has changed.

Please let me know if you know some articles where these subjects are better
explained than in the books I have.

Thanks,

Wouter