September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
26h 5m
English
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Deploying the Application
It is very simple to deploy an ASP.NET application, especially when
compared to classic ASP. There is no registering of components in the
Registry, no need to stop and start the server or the operating
system, no problem with multiple versions of the same
dll for different applications, and no more DLL
hell.
That’s the good news. There is no bad news, especially if you do not need to deploy assemblies globally.
ASP.NET derives all this deployment bliss by virtue of being part of the .NET Framework. The deployment features mentioned earlier are common to all applications developed under the .NET Framework.
There are actually two different ways to deploy applications. The first, XCOPY deployment, is so simple as to cause experienced developers to ask, “Is that all there is to it?” It provides all the deployment benefits of .NET except for the ability to deploy assemblies globally (i.e., to use application code modules for multiple applications). In order to implement globally available code modules, you will use global deployment. Both deployment methods are described in more detail in the following sections.
Assemblies
An assembly is the .NET
unit of versioning and
deploying code modules. Strictly speaking, an assembly consists of
Portable Executable (PE) files. PE files can be either
dll files or exe files.
These PE files are in exactly the same format as normal Windows PE
files.
In ASP.NET, an assembly will typically consist of a single
dll, although it may ...
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