Publishing a single .cs compiled file

Question

Hi, May I please ask if it is possible to publish .cs file to make it a compiled DLL which will be in the bin folder of a live hosting, without having to publish the whole project? I asked this because I may need to make some changes to some C# codes and it takes longer period of time to publish the whole project. So I was thinking if maybe there's a way that I can publish some .cs files after I make some corrections to them

Answer 1

Hi @Donald Symmons,

This is actually not recommended as you might have made a change to aspx but forgotten about it between deployments. It’s best to send the entire content.

But if you insist, I found a tool that can help you: CSC.EXE (.NET Framework Executable).

You could try the following steps to use csc.exe to convert .cs file to an dll file.

Enter cmd in the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 directory. Then enter the following command line(Change the path based on your own project).

csc.exe /t:library -out:C:\Test\Project\test.dll C:\Test\Project\Program.cs

Best regards,
Lan Huang

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