WSP vs WAP limitations

UDO_67 · April 28th, 2013, 10:00 AM

Hi Imar again,

In chapter 19, page 741 in the Note box at the bottom of the page you talked about their limitations.

I am about to start my first project and I am not sure which one to use. At first, I was going to WSP since the project in the book is using WSP.

Since WAP doesn't support Profiles and dynamic App_code folder what are other alternatives if I want to use WAP?

Again I will research on my own but figured I would start here first.

Thanks,

BTW, I finished your book and I really liked it. Great job!

Imar · April 28th, 2013, 10:10 AM

Hi there,

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Since WAP doesn't support Profiles and dynamic App_code folder what are other alternatives if I want to use WAP?

App_Code isn't a problem; with a WAP you can just save code file pretty much anywhere (except for the App_Code folder). Changes then need to be deployed to the server by copying the resulting DLL(s).

Profile is a different story. If you Google for Web Application Project Profile you'll find some ways to make Profile work in a WAP. Personally, I prefer to not use Profile in a WAP and use my own custom classes instead. With something like Entity Framework (Code First or Model first) this is easy to do.

>> BTW, I finished your book and I really liked it. Great job!

Thank you. Spread the word, spread the word (such as posting a review on Amazon.com).

Cheers,

Imar

UDO_67 · April 28th, 2013, 10:15 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. I am going to post a review in amazon.

Have a great day!

vbboyd · April 28th, 2013, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Imar

Hi there,

Thank you. Spread the word, spread the word (such as posting a review on Amazon.com).

Cheers,

Imar

I recommended your book to all the students in my (continuing education) iPhone Objective C mobile apps class just the other day. I pulled up the book on Amazon and pointed it all out to them. I told them that if they wanted to get a good start up for .NET 4.5 or 4.0 that your book was the way to go and to stay away from the Dummies books or other type intro books.
Oh and PS last year in my Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator class I recommended your ASP.NET 4.0 book to some of the professional web developers that were taking that class as part of continuing education as well. There were some students who were working at some big name companies at the time.

Imar · April 28th, 2013, 11:46 AM

Thank you both! Much appreciated.....

Imar