A Visual Studio project type which compiles all codebehind into a single assembly. Created through the File->New Project or Project->Add Project commands. This is the original project type for web applications, introduced along with .NET 1.0 and Visual Studio.NET in 2002. Not to be confused with a web site project, created by File->New Web Site or Project->Add Web Site commands.
Questions tagged [web-application-project]
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How to go from one page to another page using javascript?
From an admin page if the user is valid then the browser should go to another page.
When a user enters his user name and password, then clicks the OK button then another page is displayed and the login page is automatically closed.
How can I do this…

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WebApplication publish to relative filesystem path
I'm setting up a publish to a relative path for testing locally (especially xml config transformations). Each developer has their own path to the checked out project and I'd like to set up a publish that is machine/environment agnostic.
The publish…

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How to use app_GlobalResource or app_LocalResource?
How to use them in a ASP.NET Web Application project? Any difference?
many thanks

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when to use index.php instead of index.html
I am relatively new to php. There is a very basic thing that has been troubling me. I understand that php is used to make web sites dynamic. I also understand that php is one of the many server side scripting languages that can be used to make…

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ASP.NET Web Site or Web Project
When creating a new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio should I chose create: website or project?
I understand that web application project was the way to do it back in the day with VS 2003 but is it still applicable today? What are some of the…

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Changing Output path in web project in VS2010
I have several ASP.NET web projects and their Output folder are set to "C:\Builds\[ProjectName]bin" (instead of the default "bin\" folder). This makes "F5" Debugging not working because the ASP.NET Development Server expects the "bin" folder under…

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Web Application Structure and Deployment
Our product is an ASP.Net web application. Currently, we use Web Site Projects in Visual Studio, but have been looking into using Web Application Projects for quite some time. I am currently researching them so that we can hopefully improve our…

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Why are code-behind files not visible in a VB.NET Web Application project?
I am trying to convert a VB.NET web site project to a web application project, yet the in web application project, my code-behind files are not visible unless I set the solution explorer "show all files" option. Why is this? What setting can I…

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How to precompile a Web Application project?
I've heard recently that you can precompile Web Application projects. My question is how?
Right now, when I do a publish for my web application and select only files needed to run this application I get it published but it still has all my ASPX…

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Force external files to be copied to bin folder on publish
I have a web application project that references a third party assembly, which in turn uses some native dlls that it needs to find at runtime.
Because of that, I wanted to add these dlls to the bin folder of the project, so that they can definitely…

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Visual Studio web profiling only shows iexplore
When I run the Visual Studio 2012 profiler (Perfomance Analyzer) for a web app inside Visual Studio, it starts Internet Explorer and ends profiling when I close the IE window.
But after the analysis, results only show the iexplore.exe process and…

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Web Application won't publish without .cs files
I have an asp.net web application project that I am publishing via Build > Publish within visual studio 2013. I am publishing to the file system, using the precompile option selected. My project has "Only files needed to run this application"…

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How to add Assembly Information to a Web Site/App in Visual Studio 2008
Can anyone tell me how to add an AssemblyInfo.vb file to a Web Application converted from NET2.0 to NET3.5.
I'd like to add the manifest information but cannot find a way to do for the Web Application's compiled DLL.
I am using Web Deployment…

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Website Project with Team Foundation Server
Is it possible to use a Website Project instead of a Web Application Project with Team Foundation Server? I see that it is easy to add a Web Application but cannot find how to use version control with a Website Project. Any help for this would be…

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ASP.NET 3.5 Web Application Project takes excessively long time to initially load
I have started work at a new company and the main project I work on (an ASP.NET 3.5 Web Application Project) takes an excessively long time to initially load (Around 1.5 minutes)
I am aware that this is generally the nature of web app projects but…

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