aspnet-merge

Tricky problem with ASP.NET web forms resources and localization.

I've got the following nonstandard setup (VS2008, .NET 3.5 SP1): There is a main web project called MainSite and There are several "plugin" web projects with different names. When building these plugins I have a custom build step that calls aspnet_compiler.exe and aspnet_merge.exe. This results in two .DLL files - *plugin_name*.dll and...

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...

Are there size limitations to the .NET Assembly format?

We ran into an interesting issue that I've not experienced before. We have a large scale production ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Web App Project in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 which gets compiled and deployed using a Website Deployment Project. Everything has worked fine for the last year, until after a check-in yesterday the app started critically fail...

Aspnet_merge error has no detail

I have been attempting to add a Deployment Project to my web app. When I build it, I get a message "An error occurred when merging assemblies: Exception from HRESULT: 0x806D0004". There is no other detail, like ILMerge error, or Duplicate Name. I have "verbosity" set to "Diagnostic", and this is the output: Command: C:\Program Files\MS...