Visual Studio 2005 Beta Question

[SALvation]

Doing some research into VS2005.NET Beta 2, I see that programmers can now do something called "precompile for deployment" with their .NET web applications. It compiles everything into 1 file and that one file is all you need to upload to the server. This helps protecting code, so you don't have to upload everything separately.

Has anyone tried this yet, and does it work with the current 1.1 framework? I would love to be able to do this so I could give my clients just 1 file, and not the source code to my applications.

 

[royaldank]

.NET 2.0 does do compilation a bit differently. I haven't really gotten into it but I do know fairly significant changes were made.

 

[Snapster]

If you give your clients the source code to your projects you are doing something wrong. Even with 1.0 and 1.1 there are setup and deployment options that you can use that don't require you giving your client the source code.