[Mono-devel-list] Mono 1.0 ASP.NET "missing update" Src/Codebehind behaviour

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:38, Sebastian Nowozin wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am running Mono 1.0.2 with mod_mono and xsp 1.0 to serve it on
> Debian/sid with the readymade packages. The configuration and included
> ASP.NET examples work, however, I experience a strange behaviour when
> working with Codebehind pages.
> 
> I am not sure its a bug or misunderstanding on my side, therefore I post here.
> 
> Lets take the attached example, a simple button in test.aspx which is
> wired to a .cs file called Test.cs.
> 
> The Test.cs file is intentionally broken.  You can copy both files to
> some ASP.NET enabled directory and go to the test.aspx file in your
> browser. It will correctly complain about the syntax error in the
> Test.cs file, which you can easily fix by removing the "bug" line.
> 
> However, now if you go to the test.aspx file again in your browser,
> the same bug is still complained about, although the underlying file
> is clearly fixed. The mono ASP.NET does not seem to recognize an
> updated file refered to by a Src attribute in the Page directive.
> 
> You can verify the file works by changing the Src to Src="Test2.cs"
> and copying the fixed file to Test2.cs. Then it works.
> 
> Is there some fundamental point I am missing, or should I file a bug report?
> Is it possible to reference a .dll file using the Page directive
> instead of a source file, so I could manually update the dll everytime
> I edit files?

If you're using Src (not CodeBehind, as that's handled by VS.NET), then
this is a bug.

-Gonzalo