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ASP.NET: Web Site or Web Application?
Please excuse me if this is a silly question. I've tried searching for answers elsewhere, but without much luck :(
In laymans terms, what's the difference between a web-application and a web-site in Visual Studio? Is one better than the other, or are they just different? - And which one came first? :)
.. My understanding so far, is that web applications emulates a normal visual studio project, by creating .proj-files and the likes, while a web solution doesn't have any of these, and basically just relies on the files in the filesystem to be there. Does web sites supports different compiling methods for optimizing a deployment configuratin?