In the work we?ve been doing with Rob on the Kona commerce app , our quest for extreme pluggability has led us to look at quite a few interesting features of ASP.NET compilation. Features I didn?t know about before Dmitry and David pointed them out for me. I thought I?d share? It starts with the <%@ Assembly src= %> and <%@ Reference virtualpath= %> directives which you may have seen show up in IntelliSense when building a page. But what are they doing exactly and what differentiates them? They both enable you to reference code that is in a different file in the site. With both of them, you get full IntelliSense on the referenced code, but they don?t reference the same kinds of files. @Reference is meant to reference a specific class...(read more) ...
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