How to ASP.NET without using web projects

Web projects in Visual Studio .NET can be be a real pain. They’re linked with the virtual directory they’re running in, which make sharing projects harder work. It also means that a) your solutions are created in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot (unless you create your virtual directory first) and b) you can’t open your solution unless IIS is running. Not good.

This is – of course – another way.

I’ve seen various articles on converting Class Libraries into Web Projects (and vice versa), but Fritz Onion has prepared a good piece on how to do it.

Someday I’ll actually get round to trying this…


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