Edit and continue in ASP.NET web projects
NickName:Mikhail Glukhov Ask DateTime:2010-03-05T23:50:41

Edit and continue in ASP.NET web projects

I know how to enable Edit and Continue in ASP.NET Web Application projects (see here), however, I found no information as to how to achieve the same thing in ASP.NET Web Site projects.

Is this feature available in Web Site projects? If no, it seems that converting our Web Site project to a Web Application is really worth doing.

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Answers
WVDominick 2010-03-05T21:42:14

Edit and Continue is not supported in Web Site projects. If that is important to you I suggest going with Web Application Projects.",

BogeyMan 2018-01-23T00:14:51

As they say, \"it depends\".\n\nFor both Visual Studio 2015 & Visual Studio 2017, if you want to be able to \"Edit & Continue\" in Web Projects, then you need to set the server for your project to \"IIS Express\" in the Web tab of Project Settings. \n\n\n\nIf you do this, you will also be able to set/hit breakpoints on the web startup code.",

EdMan196 2010-11-13T11:37:34

With a website project edit and continue is disabled by default. To enable it you must go to: Properties->Web->'Servers' section, check 'Enable Edit and Continue'. Then, if you break your code you can edit it and continue. You cannot edit the code if you are not stepping through it. i.e. you have to break before editing.",

James Lawruk 2010-03-06T15:00:59

Although you can't edit the code while stepping through with the debugger, Web Site projects allow you to simply edit the source code and then reload the page. This is almost as useful as \"Edit and Continue.\" ASP.NET dynamic compilation allows you to change the source code which triggers the automatic recompile.\n\nHere is a related article on Understanding ASP.NET Dynamic Compilation\n\nThis page is also useful and has a section called Comparing Web Site Projects and Web Application Projects",

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