"Compiling" an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site?

[Guest]

It seems like, the way ASP.NET 2.0 works, I should be able to build a
pre-compiled version of my site so that none of the code of the site would be
accessible by the people for whom I developed it.

If I've built a site in VS 2005 that has lots of ASPX files, a few ASCX
files, both with .CS code-behinds, and a bunch of class files in the APP_CODE
directory, is there a way to "build" the site and obscure it's files and
parts as much as possible?

My primary desire is to pre-compile all of the .CS code-behind files and
APP_CODE class files. But I'd even like it if the ASPX files themselves were
somehow pulled in. From what I've read, the objects that are JIT compiled in
ASP.NET do actually include the body of the ASPX HTML as well, right? So is
there a way to "deploy" the site without even including the ASPX text files?

Alex

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

What tool are you using to develop? If it's VS.Net 2005 then you can use the
publish site feature and select only the items needed to run the site (ie:
maintain an editable version and keep the ASPX pages). You can also set it
to be non-editable, which means everything is compiled into a dll, including
the html though I have never used this facility.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Alex,

You want the Web Application Projects add-on:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/default.aspx

"Web Application Projects provide a companion web project model that can be
used as an alternative to the built-in Web Site Project in Visual Studio
2005."

Also, use an obfuscator to deter reverse engineering of your code.

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]