Lesson 1: Building a Web Application

This lesson quickly introduces the concepts of the meta-data associated with .NET assemblies and the configuration of automatic assembly compilation with "build options."

• "Web applications have two build options: debug and release."

It may be better to remind us that Visual Studio solutions have two, default, build options: Debug and Release. Other configurations can be added. For more, see "Default and Custom Builds" at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/
    vsintro7/html/vxconprojectbuilds.asp

Project-level build options in the Property Pages dialog can be set for additional control over the build process.

• "The application's build option and Web.config setting should agree. There is no advantage in having one set to debug and the other set to release..."

• "To identify your application, open the AssemblyInfo file and enter the application's information in the assembly attributes."

These declarative attributes should not be confused with similar procedural properties in the System.Windows.Forms.Application class.