No dll compiled in visual studio 2008 express when built

I'm a .NET newb, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. I've inherited a website which I've amended and now need to rebuild. I've opened the .sln file in VS2008, made my changes to the files and clicked 'build > rebuild website'. This seems to run okay - it outputs a load of comments in a panel at the bottom as it's building, and then finally stops, saying: "Validation complete. Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped".

But when I check the bin folder, there are no dlls in there.

Does anyone know what's going wrong here? I just need to build this thing and upload the aspx and dll files开发者_运维技巧 and it should be sorted, but just can't seem to get it to build properly at all.

Thanks for any pointers...

If its a web project and not a web application then Visual Studio does not actually build and compile it. It just checks through for errors and let's the runtime itself compile the web pages and code behind. So you won't get a dll in the bin folder.

You can try pre-compiling your site and copying the output up to your web server. Cheers Tigger.

Make sure you're looking in the right bin folder. It's not the one in solution explorer, and you need to make sure you're checking using the "Release" configuration bin folder and not "Debug".

It's entirely possible they are redirecting the build output to somewhere else.

Check the project properties (right click on the project name and select Properties).

On the "Compile" tab look to see what the Build Output Path is. That is where the assemblies (dll's) are going to be pushed to.

Try Click on Solution right mouse ant choose Build solution. It rebuild all your solution files not only the web page.

Go to the 'Build' menu at the top of Visual Studio and select 'Build Solution'.