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Saturday, March 1, 2014

List of Asp.Net web folders



In this post we will discuss about what are the web folders present in a Asp.Net web application.

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Asp.Net maintains special folders for special purposes. Some of then are given below:
App_Code:
This folder contains source code files that are dynamically compiled for use in your application.  Any class file you want to put, you should put it here.

App_Browsers:
Contains .browser files that ASP.NET uses to identify the browsers that are using your application and determine their capabilities.

App_GlobalResources:
This folder stores global resources that are accessible to every page in the web application. This folder mostly used in multilingual purposes.

App_LocalResources:
This foler contains resources that are accessible to a specific page.

App_WebReferences:
This folder contains web service references. When you will an Add webreference then this folder will automatically get created and the references stores here.

App_Data:
This folder usually contains SQL Server Express database files.

App_Themes:
This folder stores the themes that are used to standardize and reuse formatting in your web application.

Bin:
This folder contains all the compiled .NET components (DLLs) that the ASP.NET web application uses. If you add reference then the dll will store here.