Hi,

 I have converted my web site from ASP.Net Web Site (Visual Studio Template) into ASP.Net Web Application template in visual studio 2008 and after deployment i have seen major performance hits.

WebSite running faster than Web Application (Template).

Is this because of website is pre-compiled and every .aspx page has its own dll and in case of web application project, only one dll of all pages created at the time of compilation.

Please give some definite reason, i know the difference between ASP.Net Web Site & ASP.Net Web Application but if i am talking about the performance i need to know which one is better.

Thanks

Hi,

Based on my experience, there is not big difference in performance between ASP.NET website and ASP.NET web application when we deploy them on server with same configuration.

In this case, please try to use Publish utility (Right click project name in Solution Window and select "Publish.." for web application or "Publish Web Site" for website project)  to precompile them and then deploy them on server.

Besides, we also need to make sure the web.config setting is same, such as debug mode in compilation section.

I look forward to receiving your test results.

Simillar question ...

 Apart from just performace what about scalability / managability ?

Website is bind to the File system. Means, If you add some file into the folder of you website from Explorer, that file will be included to your website.

On the other side, Web Application can has Project file (.csproj for C# and .vbproj for VB) that contains file that you application contains. You must include file from Visual Studio to add it to you project.

 Refer to MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730880(VS.80).aspx#wapp_topic5