When you publish an ASP.NET website using Visual Studio it will give you a pre-compiled site. This process of pre-compilation does various actions on the ASPX pages. Files are treated differently. There are various reasons why you would want to pre-compile your ASP.NET site. If you need more details on that you could go here or here.   Now when you have a pre-compiled site, there are a few problems you run up against. For example you run into issues with Global.asax and I have read s... [More]