Microsoft .NET Web Programming: Web Sites versus Web Applications
- by SAMIR BHOGAYTA
In .NET 2.0, Microsoft introduced the Web Site. This was the default way to create a web Project in Visual Studio 2005. In Visual Studio 2008, the Web Application has been restored as the default web Project in Visual Studio/.NET 3.x
The Web Site is a file/folder based Project structure. It is designed such that pages are not compiled until…