vs 2012 web site project has no release!

Question

User-1345623911 posted

Hi

I am starting to use vs 2012

when i  create a website Application Project  in the publish setting it has got both release and debug mode

but when creating a website project it just has got debug mode

how should i add release or should i use a web application instead!

i read the article on mictrosoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547590.aspx

about the differences but its a little bit complicated!

Answer 1

User551462331 posted

the release mode would appear in "web application" project only.

web site project do not have release mode build option in visual studio... once u deploy them, when each page is accessed first time, then that page will be compiled. thereafter from next request for the same page would use previously compiled page

in short, first requests to each page in web site project are slow in responses it works fine there after

also, make sure that u dont have this in deployed web.config file

<compilation debug="true">

it should be changed to

<compilation debug="false">

it would badly impact performance of u r web site... check this

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tess/archive/2006/04/13/575364.aspx

if u have small  web site with little functionality u can stick to web site project for more complex project it is better to have web application project

hope this helps...

Answer 2

User-1345623911 posted

so you mean when i have a website project  and i published it(which is debug only)

i should copy all the same files to the server

i have published my website project and the debug folder has got very same files! how is thta?