aspnet_client

[Lawrence Beyer]

What is the folder "aspnet_client". It is in some of my
website folder lists. (Some don't have it.) When I
publish from my ISP's server to the website on my
hard drive, it winds up in my folder list. When I publish,
if I have it one place, and not the other, I get asked if
I want to delete it.

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[David Berry]

It gets added when your web host installs ASP.NET on your site. It contains files that you use when creating ASP.NET pages. You shouldn't delete it. You might want to mark it as "Do Not Publish"


What is the folder "aspnet_client". It is in some of my
website folder lists. (Some don't have it.) When I
publish from my ISP's server to the website on my
hard drive, it winds up in my folder list. When I publish,
if I have it one place, and not the other, I get asked if
I want to delete it.

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[Lawrence Beyer]

What are ASP.NET pages

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It gets added when your web host installs ASP.NET on your site. It contains files that you use when creating ASP.NET pages. You shouldn't delete it. You might want to mark it as "Do Not Publish"


What is the folder "aspnet_client". It is in some of my
website folder lists. (Some don't have it.) When I
publish from my ISP's server to the website on my
hard drive, it winds up in my folder list. When I publish,
if I have it one place, and not the other, I get asked if
I want to delete it.

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[Mark Fitzpatrick]

ASP.Net is the latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology and is part of the .Net Framework. Basically, it is used to create dynamic web pages or perform some server-side tasks.


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Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006
What are ASP.NET pages

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It gets added when your web host installs ASP.NET on your site. It contains files that you use when creating ASP.NET pages. You shouldn't delete it. You might want to mark it as "Do Not Publish"


What is the folder "aspnet_client". It is in some of my
website folder lists. (Some don't have it.) When I
publish from my ISP's server to the website on my
hard drive, it winds up in my folder list. When I publish,
if I have it one place, and not the other, I get asked if
I want to delete it.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jim Cheshire]

It gets added when your web host installs ASP.NET on your site. It contains files that you use when creating ASP.NET pages. You shouldn't delete it. You might want to mark it as "Do Not Publish"

In fact, you absolutely SHOULD mark it as "Don't Publish." The
aspnet_client folder contains (among other things) client script files
that ASP.NET uses for validation controls. When MS releases a hotfix
for ASP.NET, these files will often be updated as well. If you
overwrite the ones on your Web server with your local copies, you
could very easily break validation on your Web site.

Note that this only applies to ASP.NET 1.*.

Jim Cheshire
Jimco Software and Books
http://www.jimcosoftware.com

Author of:

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web (Coming Soon!)

 

[Windsun]

Odd..

All of my MS ASP.NET client files on my host are in a virtual directory, and
cannot be downloaded, deleted, or written to.

Perhaps 1.1 is different.. dunno, never used it.

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[Jim Cheshire]

Odd..

All of my MS ASP.NET client files on my host are in a virtual directory, and
cannot be downloaded, deleted, or written to.

Perhaps 1.1 is different.. dunno, never used it.

The location of the folder is configurable in the machine.config file.
Some hosts have redirected it to avoid the behavior I describe.

2.0 doesn't use script files in aspnet_client for client validation
scripts. Instead, it uses the webresource.axd handler to dynamically
generate the scripts at the time of the request.


Jim Cheshire
Jimco Software and Books
http://www.jimcosoftware.com

Author of:

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web (Coming Soon!)

 

[Lawrence Beyer]

I started this thread when I asked about aspnet_client. This is how
it became a problem. I bought a new PC. My 6 year old PC still works
great, but I am afraid it might crash and leave me with no back-up. So
now I have 2 PCs with almost all my files on both PCs. Now I make
changes to my website on one computer, then publish to my ISP's
server. Then I publish from the server to my other computer. This is
how I got aspnet_client on my computer. (I have a back-up of my
websites on both computers.) I never published from the server to
my computer before getting the second PC. From what I got from
these threads, don't mess with aspnet_clent on the server, but
delete it from my computer. Correct me if I am wrong.

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[Jim Cheshire]

I started this thread when I asked about aspnet_client. This is how
it became a problem. I bought a new PC. My 6 year old PC still works
great, but I am afraid it might crash and leave me with no back-up. So
now I have 2 PCs with almost all my files on both PCs. Now I make
changes to my website on one computer, then publish to my ISP's
server. Then I publish from the server to my other computer. This is
how I got aspnet_client on my computer. (I have a back-up of my
websites on both computers.) I never published from the server to
my computer before getting the second PC. From what I got from
these threads, don't mess with aspnet_clent on the server, but
delete it from my computer. Correct me if I am wrong.

If your Web site on your local computer is a disk-based Web site, yes,
you can remove it. Just be sure that you don't unintentionally remove
the folder from the remote server when you publish.

Jim Cheshire
Jimco Software and Books
http://www.jimcosoftware.com

Author of:

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web (Coming Soon!)