[How Do I:] Precompile an ASP.NET Website

 Great Video!

 I was wondering though if precompiling can be utalized with a large ecommerce site.

Looks promising, gonna watch it!

If I have a relatively small site, like say 20 pages, which configuration would give me the best performance? (ignoring maintainability)

great job.. thanks

I noticed that when using an updateable publish that the generated dll's change their name every single time.  This creates a synchronization issue.  If I "re-publish" a website it creates a whole new App_Web_randomstring.dll so I have to replace all the ASPX files because they reference this file as well.  What would be nice if it just kept the old App_Web_something.dll filename so I wouldn't have to upload and replace everything on the server.

Any suggestions?

eugene22n,

If you're using VS2005/Express you can use aspnet_merge.exe utility.

Read more about this at:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa479044.aspx

Hope this helps.

aspnet_compiler.exe and aspnet_merge.exe as Eugene22n pointed out are used behind the scenes for the Publish Web menu option in VS. Collectively, they offer a lot of flexibility to address naming issues, # of DLLs, etc.

Re: brokensaber's ? re: compilation of a large e-commerce site, yes, performance would benefit from compilation. However, in a large site you would want to consider the granularity of compilation, i.e., how many DLLs. This would not only be for performance, but for maintenance. You would also want to become familar w/ the "updatable" option.

Chris

Thanks for this presentation--it was very clean and concise.  If I may, I'd like to suggest a Part 2: Using a Web Setup project to deploy my Precompiled ASP.NET app.  

Re: aspnet_merge.exe...it was my understanding that aspnet_merge.exe doesn't natively deploy with VS.  that, for VS2005, you have to install the Web Deployment Projects (msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa336619.aspx) and, for VS2008, you have to install the Windows SDK for .NET 3.5 (www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx 6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&displaylang=en).  Furthermore, while the Publish Web menu option uses aspnet_compiler behind the scenes, I don't see that is uses aspnet_merge or I would think we would have an option to merge all code-behind to a single, distinctly-named DLL.

Thanks!

Thanks!! Chris Pels.

When the aspnet_compiler starts to compile a website, the memory allocated to the compiler keeps on increasing until the compilation process has ended. Why doesn't the compiler release the memory while compiling files.

thanks.