Web Application project versus Web Site Project in Visual Studio

Question

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website or webapplication in.ASP.NET
web application projects v.s. web site projects

What are the differences?

I can right click on a solution and say

Add New Website...

or

Add New Project... > Web > ASP.NET Web Application

Is one preferred over the other in terms of best practices or extensibility/performance/etc.?

Any resource links would be great, as I can't find them.

Answer 1

I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers here - but from past experience working with both, I prefer Web Site Projects for 2 reasons:

• NO designer files to mess with. I don't know how many times I've had those get out of sync, and once they do, its a real pain to put things back into working order.
• Better PUBLISH functionality. I prefer to fully compile my apps, and the publish wizard makes this all much simpler than the web apps do.

Those 2 reasons above are the main reason I stick with web sites over web apps. There are probably plenty of other reasons why one or the other could be better - but between the 2 of those, web site projects let me spend much less time on making things work and more time coding.

Answer 2

did you tried to search before post this question?

as an example:

web application projects v.s. web site projects

website or webapplication in.ASP.NET