Community Starter Kit won't compile ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities.dll

[Guatemala Balla]

I am a developer for a web company and though I have complete
understanding of ASP and many other languages, I have not yet had the
pleasure of delving into ASP.NET. I do understand it somewhat and I can
do some basic updates. What I am challenged with now is that I need to
change a SQL statement in the calendar for one of our clients
http://www.visitcentralpa.org where the events listed defaultly show
all but when you select another topic from the drop down list and then
select ALL again, the amount of subjects shown are far less.

I know the fix and where the fix is. The problem is that when I click
Build->Build Solution it doesn't recompile the DLL. I do get some
errors but I've gotten errors in .Net apps before and they still
compiled.

This is so frustrating. I keep trying to make the changes and they
never update. I hear all the praises of .net but honestly I think the
power of it is great but the idea of its functionality is completely
flawed. The web should never need compiled. The key to the web is easy
and quick updates. That is not possible with .Net. I will be taking a
..Net class eventually to get caught up on this technology but until
then, I NEED HELP!!!

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Do you have any static (Shared in VB) bits. If so, you will have to stop and
restart IIS to get the new items. As for recompile, it depends on which
version of ASP.NET. By default, ASP.NET 2.0 compiles on the fly and does not
create a DLL that is easily found. You can "publish" the site and deploy wth
a fully compiled DLL.

This "dynamic" type of information should be held in a persistent store,
like a database. Then, it would not require recompile to add events.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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[cowznofsky]

Well, you'll need to be much more specific about the errors you're
getting to get some help.
A couple of notes:
1. The Community Starter Kit is a nice app, but it's overly
complicated and difficult to maintain. A tough place to start.
2. The kit was written in asp.net 1.1, and the whole thing compiles
into one executable. In 2.0 the compile model is different, and you
can swap in individual pages.

 

[Guatemala Balla]

I'm definately using ASP 1.1 in VS 2003 for this one. Do I need to
publish it instead of build it? I'm working on this project from the
server the site is running on and not my local machine as well. I agree
the starter kit is overly complicated but I think I'm getting the
understanding of it. I just wish it would compile the
ASPNET.Starterkit.Community.dll so I can actually fix this site.