Difference between website and web application in Visual Studio?

Question

What is the difference between a web site and a web application?

Answer 1

FROM MCTS SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT

Web applications and websites function and perform similarly, but web applications differ from websites in several important ways. For example, with a web application:

■ You can create an MVC application.

■ Visual Studio stores the list of files in a project file (.csproj or .vbproj), rather than relying on the folder structure.

■ You cannot mix Visual Basic and C#.

■ You cannot edit code without stopping a debugging session.

■ You can establish dependencies between multiple web projects.

■ You must compile the application before deployment, which prevents you from testing a page if another page will not compile.

■ You do not have to store the source code on the server.

■ You can control the assembly name and version.

■ You cannot edit individual files after deployment without recompiling.