Hello,

I am quite new with .Net so please bare with me. I have created a website and it works as expected.

I have heard that you can compile the website into a DLL and no source code is necessary for the site to work. Basically at this point I would like to compile this website into a dll the behind code (which i think is the aspx.cs files) are no longer needed on the website. Pretty much I would like to know how I can put up the website with the compiled version so no source code can be modified or read.

Thank you for your help in advance.

I won't bare with you, but I'll bear with you.

Yes - you can compile the .cs or .vb files into a dll (that includes the aspx.cs and ascx.cs as well as other .cs files). You still need the .aspx pages in the appropriate directories.

There are several ways to do this - one way is to uset the Copy Project feature, which you can set to copy only the files needed to a specific root directory. You can also manually copy the files needed, copying only the files that are aspx/asmx/whatever plus the dll file in the bin directory. Of course, you can also do an msi install as well.

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com