Visual Web Developer Express 2005 Limitations

[dredwerks]

Greetings all,

This is my first post on Kirupa.com. I find the site super useful and check it regularly for new tutorials. Great work. I have two questions that you may be able to help with.

First: On the 4th page of the tutorial Creating a Simple ASP.NET Application it shows the build menu of Visual Web Developer Express 2005 (VWDE05) with more options than I have on mine (Publish ... for instance). Is there a way to have those options for free? Was this an error?

Second: In attempting to build an asp.net application in c# with external .cs classes stored in the App_Code folder I have no problem previewing the app in the browser from within VWDE05. However, when I copy the files to my local wwwroot (windows 2000 pro, IIS, asp.net 2.0 etc...) I get an error indicating that the code in the external file is not accessible. I have tried many workarounds for this including namespaces but nothing has worked so far, as I am just learning C# and asp.net, it may be my fault. Am I running up against a limitation in VWDE05? Is there a way to reference classes stored in App_Code folder in .cs files from Default.aspx.cs with only VWDE05?

Thank you for your help.

[kirupa]

Hi drederks!
Welcome to the forum. Both of your points, I think, are caused by limitations in Web Developer Express, and I really did not do a good job double-checking when writing that tutorial.

VWDE05 does not support the publish option, and as far as I can tell, you do not have support for compiling your application into a single DLL file. You cannot copy raw cs files into your IIS server and expect things to work, for your ASPX pages actually use the compiled DLL files for running the applications.

Cheers!
Kirupa I:-)


Greetings all,

This is my first post on Kirupa.com. I find the site super useful and check it regularly for new tutorials. Great work. I have two questions that you may be able to help with.

First: On the 4th page of the tutorial Creating a Simple ASP.NET Application it shows the build menu of Visual Web Developer Express 2005 (VWDE05) with more options than I have on mine (Publish ... for instance). Is there a way to have those options for free? Was this an error?

Second: In attempting to build an asp.net application in c# with external .cs classes stored in the App_Code folder I have no problem previewing the app in the browser from within VWDE05. However, when I copy the files to my local wwwroot (windows 2000 pro, IIS, asp.net 2.0 etc...) I get an error indicating that the code in the external file is not accessible. I have tried many workarounds for this including namespaces but nothing has worked so far, as I am just learning C# and asp.net, it may be my fault. Am I running up against a limitation in VWDE05? Is there a way to reference classes stored in App_Code folder in .cs files from Default.aspx.cs with only VWDE05?

Thank you for your help.

[Talha]

Hi,
In this tutorial Intro to SQL Server with ASP.NET i follow the tutorial. In page 4 of this tutorial Creating the Input Form i created & test when i test this error occured....

Server Application Unavailable

The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.
Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.

please tell me the solution....bye