Replacing dll used by a asp.net website

Question

I have a dll being used by a asp.net website. I made some change to the dll and would like to replace the current dll in the bin directory.

Can I just simply drop the new dll in or is there a better way? I don't want to reset the iis for this.

Answer 1

Yes you can make that as long as your modifications won't break the project (Change return type, removed function, etc..) I wouldn't highly suggest that, but sometimes we need to place a hot fix on the fly until we full deploy

Answer 2

Be careful with that. I prefer to have all projects pointing to the DLL project in the same solution.

I would point it to the release folder so that they share the same DLL.

When you rebuild your solution, if something is wrong you will know because it will fail to build.