What is the difference between website and web application?

 Scenario  1:

a solution with four projects( website proj, CO proj,BIZ proj,DAL Proj) can be called as a web application?

scenario 2:

a solution with multiple web site will become a web application?

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CVPrasad

A web site dows not have project file. Its a collection of resources like aspx, html, js, css, images in a directory or its subdirectories.

We application is a traditional method of development with a project (.csproj) file.

Here are two links which explains this in more details

http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/1520-Difference-between-web-site-web-application.aspx

http://bytes.com/topic/asp-net/answers/613134-difference-between-web-site-web-application-project

could you please explain with project structure example or can you answer my above two scenarios?

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CVPrasad

Hi,

cvprasad.komirisetty:

 Scenario  1:

a solution with four projects( website proj, CO proj,BIZ proj,DAL Proj) can be called as a web application?

 

No, the solution is a container which contains projects. For more information about Solutions and Projects, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b142f8e7(VS.80).aspx

cvprasad.komirisetty:

scenario 2:

a solution with multiple web site will become a web application?

No, ASP.NET web application project is a single project which can be included in a solution.

For more information about ASP.NET website, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex526337.aspx and for ASP.NET web application project, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730880(VS.80).aspx

Thanks.

Thank you very much...

i got some idea.

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CVPrasad