SubWebFolder and mutliple bin folders with Website model?

Question

Hi,

I am looking for some advice on how what is the best approach to subweb folders and having mutliple bin folders in the WebSite Project model. For adding new pages at a later stage without recompiling the core files of a website and without building a full fledged Plug-in framework api. I am aware of being able to drop in the compiled dlls into the main bin folder and to just copy over the new page files to a sub folder but I am looking for a more organized file/folder approach.

Here is the how it was done with WAP: Moving the Code-Behind Assemblies/DLLs to a different folder than /BIN with ASP.NET 1.1

Multiple /bin folders in ASP.NET

I should also mention that I see that I can still do it the old way with the website project model by making the adjustment to the config section mentioned here but I was wondering if that has any side affects.

AssemblyBinding in Web Config and XMLNS

Answer 1

Are you trying to copy new DLL's or new sources to your site? Note that for sources, the best place in web sites is the App_Code folder. In there, you can create any arbitrary folder structure that you like, and it will all be built at runtime into an assembly. Then, every page gets a reference to that assembly and is able to use types from there.