Difference between Website and Web Project

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Hi,

I need to know what is the difference between WebSite and a Web Project in Visual Studio 2010?
And What is best in which scenario?
And What if we need to convert a website to a web project?

Thanks in anticipation!

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Sincerely
Ammar Naqvi

Posted 3-May-11 4:03am

Syed Ammar Haider

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Solution 3

In addition to the above link

Diff Between Website and WebApplication[^]

Posted 5-May-11 1:08am

Mahendra.p25

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Here is the link for differences on 4.5 F/W

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547590.aspx[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398037/asp-net-web-site-or-asp-net-web-application[^]

Posted 2-Apr-13 20:16pm

srikanth.aleti

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-03T04:49:00

Solution 1

Instead of describing all here, better you read them out here.

MSDN Article: Comparing Web Site Projects and Web Application Projects[^]

Further, these discussions should help you more:
Difference between 'Web Site' and 'Project' in Visual Studio - 1[^]
ASP.NET: Web Site or Web Application? - 2[^]
What is the difference between web application and website in asp.net? - 3[^]

Posted 3-May-11 4:49am

Sandeep Mewara

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TweakBird 3-May-11 10:56am

Good links. My 5.

Sandeep Mewara 3-May-11 10:59am

Thanks Eswar.

thatraja 3-May-11 20:16pm

Good bunch

Sandeep Mewara 4-May-11 1:12am

thanks!