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asp.netvisual-studio-2012
Lns
Lns

Reputation: 50

What's a bin.net3.5 file

What's a 'bin.net3.5' file that gets created in the same folder as the VS2012 solution that contains an ASP.net website?

I would like to mention that this is a file and I am not referring to the project's 'bin' directory where projects' compiled dlls will be placed after a build.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 53

Answers (2)

Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi

Reputation: 172578

As discussed it seems that this is something related to your project specific file. There is no such standard file created by Visual Studio 2012

Bin Folder

ASP.NET recognizes the Bin folder of a website as a special folder for specific types of content. A Bin folder is meant to contain compiled assemblies (.dll files) for custom ASP.NET controls, components, or other code that you want to reference in your ASP.NET web application.

You can store compiled assemblies in the Bin folder, and other code anywhere in the web application (such as code for pages) automatically references it. A typical example is that you have the compiled code for a custom class. You can copy the compiled assembly to the Bin folder of your Web application and the class is then available to all pages.

Upvotes: 1

Christian Phillips
Christian Phillips

Reputation: 18769

Some DLL's are kept in different folder names to determine the version, you'll notice when using nuget, the dll's will go into a packages folder, and are often split as net40, net45 etc

When you build the project, your Dll's will go into the Bin directory.

Upvotes: 1

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