<p>I have a ASP.net 2.0 app and I have made some changes the the source file ( cs files ). I uploaded the changes with the belief that it would auto-recompile. I also have the compiled dll in MY_APP/bin. I checked it and noticed that it did not recompile. Please understand I am new to this.</p>

[{'answer_id': 51876, 'author': 'zappan', 'author_id': 4723, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4723', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>In VS menu you have Build -&gt; Rebuild Solution</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 51878, 'author': 'DevelopingChris', 'author_id': 1220, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1220', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>my #1 way to do this, add white space to the top of the web config file, after the xml declaration tag.</p>\n\n<p>It forces the node to re-cache and recompile. We even have a page deep in the admin called Flush.aspx that does it for us.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 51886, 'author': 'Sara Chipps', 'author_id': 4140, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4140', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>It's always best to just actually run a build after making .cs changes. </p>\n\n<p>Where are you running it? Is this for debugging or production?</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 51914, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I use a similar method to ChanChan, but instead of whitespace I put a comment in the web.config to indicate when/why the config was edited.</p>\n'}]
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