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Asked: 2026-05-18T20:03:13+00:00

I have to create a small asp.net-application. The last such web-application I have built

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I have to create a small asp.net-application. The last such web-application I have built was a while ago. At this time, I have saved my classes in the App_Code-folder.

During setting up the web-solution in VS2010, I have seen that VS does no more propose to create the app_code directory (right click on the project, Add asp.net-folder). Is the App_Code folder no more the prefered location to save classes of the web-application and where is the new place to store them?

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Thanks to Oded I have received the answer to my question.

If one has the same question as I had, probably he is also not aware (as I was), that there are two different types of projects with their own menu-points in VS: Web-Application and Web-Site. The organisation of these two types is different. For a web-application, the app_code-folder is not proposed in the asp.net-folder-menu . Maybe this information helps someone.

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    It is the preferred place, but VS 2010 just doesn’t automatically create it for you any more.

    As you can see from the documentation of app_code for .NET 4.0, it is still the best place for shared code.

    In a Web site project, you can store source code in the App_Code folder, and it will be automatically compiled at run time. The resulting assembly is accessible to any other code in the Web application.

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