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How do I copy a visual studio 2003 project page over to another server?
I have been tasked with editing an old asp.net project developed using visual studio 2003. I have now made the edit to the .aspx and .cs page on our development server where now I have to make the edit live. On our development server I can see the .aspx and .cs pages but on our live server I can only see the .aspx page within iis. I usually develop using VS 2005 or 2008 so this is unfamiliar to me. Usually I would just deploy the project over to the live server where I am able to deploy both the .aspx and .cs pages and the .dll file is copied over in the backend, this doesn't seem to be the case in VS 2003. I can see a copy project option but all I want to do is copy over the one page, not the entire project?
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>>The error I get refers to the machine.config file which seems to have a problem with the old .dll file which I renamed.
>>Should I just delete the old .dll file or is my problem else where?
1. What is the exact error?
2. Does the re-compiled code with your new changes run correctly on your development machine?
If yes, then I would go ahead and delete the old dll...once you change the name of the dll....the process that should be happening is that IIS restarts the application and should be reading the new dll....so I'm not sure what is going on.
I'm also assuming you have a backup of the working site?
>>Should I just delete the old .dll file or is my problem else where?
1. What is the exact error?
2. Does the re-compiled code with your new changes run correctly on your development machine?
If yes, then I would go ahead and delete the old dll...once you change the name of the dll....the process that should be happening is that IIS restarts the application and should be reading the new dll....so I'm not sure what is going on.
I'm also assuming you have a backup of the working site?
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I performed an iis reset on my live server and now everything is how it should be....few!
Thanks.
Thanks.
Glad you go it working!
I was going to suggest an iisreset and cache clear...depending on whether or not deleting the old dll worked or not...
But in addition to the iisreset, I would also suggest you clear out the server cache too...it is framework specific, so .Net 1.1x in IIS use the server cache at:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\F
And ASP.Net 2.x uses:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\F
Basically, you have to stop iis, then delete everything inside the above mentioned folders.
If you do a lot of updates to the code (like on a development machine)...I'd recommend you clear those folders often.
Visual Studio's internal "web server" also uses those folders.
A lot of times the "I made some code changes and don't see my changes" problems can be cleared up by cleaning those folders.
I was going to suggest an iisreset and cache clear...depending on whether or not deleting the old dll worked or not...
But in addition to the iisreset, I would also suggest you clear out the server cache too...it is framework specific, so .Net 1.1x in IIS use the server cache at:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\F
And ASP.Net 2.x uses:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\F
Basically, you have to stop iis, then delete everything inside the above mentioned folders.
If you do a lot of updates to the code (like on a development machine)...I'd recommend you clear those folders often.
Visual Studio's internal "web server" also uses those folders.
A lot of times the "I made some code changes and don't see my changes" problems can be cleared up by cleaning those folders.
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