Compiling ASP.NET application without IIS

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I don't see the need to have IIS installed simply to compile an ASP.NET app.
I suppose I could just use the command line compiler. But this is part of
a much much large compile that consists of may different solution files.
This is just one. Is there a way to compile an ASP.NET application using
the IDE without having to connect to IIS?

gkelly
 
gkelly said:
I don't see the need to have IIS installed simply to compile an ASP.NET app.
I suppose I could just use the command line compiler. But this is part of
a much much large compile that consists of may different solution files.
This is just one. Is there a way to compile an ASP.NET application using
the IDE without having to connect to IIS?
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As far as I know, there is not.

The idea is that a "web project" isn't really just some files on the disk.
It's really some files retrieved from a web server. You've got to have a web
server to retrieve the files from.

In VS2005 this is improved. A "web site" (note - not a "web project"
anymore) can be located on the file system, on your local IIS server, on an
FTP server, or on a remote web server.
 
You don't need IIS to compile a web application. IIS has nothing to do with
compilation. You do however, need IIS to have VS .NET generate a web
project.
 
Scott M. said:
You don't need IIS to compile a web application. IIS has nothing to do with
compilation. You do however, need IIS to have VS .NET generate a web
project.
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Scott, would this still be the case if there were a difference between the
IIS virtual directory structure and the on-disk structure?

Also, do you know of a way to compile using the IDE without IIS?
 
Scott, would this still be the case if there were a difference between the
IIS virtual directory structure and the on-disk structure?
Yes.


Also, do you know of a way to compile using the IDE without IIS?
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You don't need to have IIS on the same machine that you have VS .NET on, but
you DO need to have IIS on a machine that you can connect to.
 
Scott M. said:
You don't need to have IIS on the same machine that you have VS .NET on, but
you DO need to have IIS on a machine that you can connect to.
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Right, this is where I think we may be talking past each other. In general,
you need IIS. In certain specific cases, you might not.
 
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