Vista - web.config required elements

The following sections appears in my web.config file.

<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation>

<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
<add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=3.5.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=3.5.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
<add assembly="System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
</assemblies>


What does each of these assemblies do and how do I know if I need them or if
I can delete them?

I am working on a .NET 3.5 web application which uses AJAX. It will be
hosted on Server 2008 w/ IIS 7.

Hi MCM,

As for the configuration elements you mentioned, they're those strong-named
assemblies which are referenced globally in your ASP.NET web
application(every page in the web application will be referencing them).

And here is a brief summary of these assemblies:
=====================================

These ones are the core assemblies for the .NET 3.5 components and
services(such as LINQ)


Culture=neutral,=============================

These two ones are for ASP.NET ajax service (contains many extension
classes components which is necessary to make ASP.NET ajax work)



======================================
I'm a bit surprised that your application references the "winform"
assembly, are you using some winform class in your ASP.NET application?

Here is a blog entry which also give some general ideas on many new
asssmblies involved in ..NET 3.5

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/...mework-35.html

Sincerely,

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> As for the configuration elements you mentioned, they're those strong-namedFirst - I tried deleting all of them and my application seemed to run just
fine. So I'm not clear on why I need them? Are they just need for web "sites"
but not web "applications"?

Second - if I do need them, should I keep them matched up with the project
references? What happens if there is a mismatch between the project
references and the wbe.config? Why are these listed in 2 places anyway?

If I am not using LINQ, then I don't need the assembly right?

System.Web.Extensions.Design is part of System.Web.Extensions, so why would
I need both? Can't I just reference System.Web.Extensions?

An additional note:

If I delete the assembly System.Xml.Linq, my app still compiles fine and
runs fine, but I get a green underline below @Page directive that says it
can't find System.Xml.Linq. Even though I am not using Linq at all, it is
still looking for it. So it must be getting used somewhere by the
compiler/framework/iis/something? Can you tell me what it is being used for
and what the other assemblies are used for *specifically*?


"MCM" wrote:

Thanks for your reply MCM,

If you haven't used any LINQ feature, you can certainly remove the
reference. As for the green line warning, I think it is likely a
design-time error producted by IDE, I cannot get the exact cause from the
general appearnce.

If you want to get the usage of each of those assemblies, I recommend you
use the reflector utility to inspect those assemblies and you can clearly
get all the available classes in the assembly.

Also, one means for checking whether your application can work
correctly(with the current assembly reference list) is perform a
"precompilation" on your web application(project). In visual studio, you
can use "Build --> Publish Web Site" to do precompilation"

precompilation just predo the dynamic compilation before you publish/deploy
the web application:

#Precompilation In ASP.NET 2.0
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/417.aspx

it will report error if there is any assembly reference problem(you should
choose "nonupdatable" mode when precompile the site).

BTW, I've also replied you in another thread mentioned some information
about different project type of ASP.NET 2.0 application which is also
helpful to you.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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