How to get only single dll when i publish my asp.net web application.

Question

Hello Friends When i publish my web-application that is in VS2008 i find multiple dll in the bin folder that are mainly of all the aspx.cs pages now my question is how can i get rid of multiple dll and can get single dll of the entire application. NOTE : i had very few class file as i had all the coding the code behind of the respective aspx page. I had refer to this link and tried but with no success. :( [ http://forums.asp.net/t/1071783.aspx/1] can any one pls give me step by step instruction to publish the web-application with single dll as iam new developer.. Thanks in advance.

RanjithKumar chiguruvada · Answer

Hi Shaikh I think this is useful to u. To accomplish this you will have to covert your project into a Web Application Project . The process of converting is not that hard but you will need to move everything out of the app_code folder as WAP (Web Application Projects) projects do not have code inside app_code. Once you do this everything inside your project is compiled into a single DLL file any external assemblies are still contained in their own DLL files though but there are options around that as well.

husein Shaikh · Answer

Thanks Ranjit  as u suggested it works... Thanks for the reply.

husein Shaikh · Answer

Thanks for the reply RanjitKumar but i have only 1class file in the app_code were else i had coded every thing in the code behind of the repective aspx page. so the problem is iam getting multiple dll i:e 1dll per aspx page.... so is their any thing i can do so that all those aspx pages dll can merge into single dll while publishing the web site ... I have altogether ariund 58 pages in my project and i can see this many no. of dll after publishing in the Bin folder.. Please help me out friend ...