Hello everyone,

I followed ScottGu's blog on using "Web Deployment Projects" to deploy my web application from this URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429723.aspx

I followed the instructions and everything worked fine.
- The Web application builds
- The web deployment project precompiled the web application
- The Web Setup project created the MSI file for installation on the server

Now though I cannot make any changes to my Web Application because I keep getting the following error when I hit "Build Website":  "This application is already precompiled"

And the most obvious was making sure in the "web Deployment project" that I checked the box to allow the web site to be upgradeable after precompiling, but it doesn't make a difference.

Can someone please help me so that I can update my site?

Thanks.

-- Jim

Hey VirtueTech,

sorry, i dont have an answer to your query, but rather the same problem.  i'm hoping you found something ground breaking and helpful?

i've searched and searched, and tried every suggestion i've come across, but to no avail.

Cheers,

Mike

I was experiencing the same problem and was able to get working again by deleting that PrecompiledApp.config file. It also stuffed up a lot of my references and the removed all the CodeFile="..." attributes.

What I still don't understand is how my Web Deployment project decided to deploy the precompiled code over all the files in the normal source directory. Luckily this was a very small part of a larger solution (and I had a proper version in source control to draw on); otherwise this would have been extremely frustrating. I'm a big fan of Web Deployment Projects, however this sort of flakiness is a bit worrying.