Home/ Questions/Q 946931
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T23:00:02+00:00

I have several class files in App_Code in an ASP.net website running in Microsoft

  • 0

I have several class files in App_Code in an ASP.net website running in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional.

In liu of using a full unit test suite I just want to somehow compile those project-wide classses into an .EXE so that I can nightly run unit tests on them.

I do know how to create a separate C# library project consisting of those files and how to include them into my website–but that is not desirable–I don’t want to give up the ability to make on-the-fly code changes of those library classes when running the website in the debugger. As far as I know .Net debugger isn’t powerful enough to modify code in included libraries with instant auto re-compilation on page re-load.

So, I want my cake and eat it, too:

  1. Command-line unit testing of website class files in App_Code directory
  2. Being able to modify those class files w/o stopping/re-starting the web debugger.

Is it possible to have both?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    You should put the code in an altogether separate class library/assembly, then reference it from your web project and the command-line utility. As far as I know, it makes no difference where you modify your code, when stopped in the debugger. Never had problems myself.

    Hope that helps.

    • 0