Development environment : ASP.NET 2.0 , Visual studio 2005

I am looking for a good method for deploying my ASP.NET application. I have used "Publish website" feature with "Allow site to updatable" checkbox checked. This worked correctly, but I am facing some problem in updating the site after deploying. I did the change in local machine and used the "Publish website" again, but it changed all assemblies names (assemblies which starts with app_web).

There is another option to avoid this by checking "Use fixed assembly names" checkbox. But it will generate each assembly for each page, so I will have many DLLs in my bin directory. Is there any performance impact for this method ? Or do I need to use aspnet_merge.exe and merge assemblies ? I need to update this site regularly. Please suggest a good method.

Thanks

navaneethkn:

Please suggest a good method.

FTP the files to your server.  Works for many.

Jeff

jeff@zina.com:

FTP the files to your server

Thanks. I know this is the easiest method. But will there any performance impacts when both aspx and cs files are there on server ? Will precompiled website works much faster than this method ? Also there is a bit security issue as I am uploading to another server.

Thanks again, 

I would recommend you use WDP... Put the output of WDP to a fixed location outside of your web applcation.  You can then opn this pre-compiled web as a web site (using open web site command) and use publish web or copy web to publish to destination...  You can read more about WDP at http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2008/01/visual-studio-2008-web-deployment.html

In anycase do note that once you pre-compile you can only change ASPX pages (if you mark "allow site to be updatable") you cannot just change .cs files coz that will cause pre-compilation to create new DLLs...  Using WDP you can pre-compile per folder which will allow you to exactly update the pieces of your app that are to be updated together...

VishalRJoshi:

I would recommend you use WDP.

Looks interesting. But I am still on VS2005, so is there any alternatives ? 

You can download the WDP add-on for VS2005.