asp.net-compiler

Precompilation and startup times on ASP.Net

I am developping a (relatively small) website in ASP.Net 2.0. I am also using nAnt to perform some easy tweaking on my project before delivering executables. In its current state, the website is "precompiled" using aspnet_compiler.exe -nologo -v ${Appname} -u ${target} I have noticed that after the IIS pool is restarted (after a i...

Can you precompile and merge part of an ASP.NET website and then continue development?

A big part of the web site is precompiled and merged, since it's almost never going to change. The precompiled bits can be replaced in case of updates to the original. I want to continue development of new pages, but when I browse to a new page I get the following error: The file '/Website/Test/Default.aspx' has not been pre-compil...

Using the aspnet_compiler.exe to compile .Net Web Apps

I have code in the top layer of my .Net web application that I'd like to unit test, but when my build server compiles the project using the aspnet_compiler.exe, it makes a .dll file that is not at all usable by another project, i.e. an NUnit test project. (This is true of ASP .Net web applications and of ASP .Net MVC applications.) Am ...