title: Should I precompile ASP.NET 2.0 sites before deployment or not?
body: <p>Where I work, we do a very large number very small ASP.NET apps, and it has happened a few times that sites have been deployed in precompiled format, and the app needs to be changed, but the version of the code available in source control is out of date and the developer is not available. The app's dll has to be decompiled and hacked back together. </p>
  
  <p>Ideally, it would never happen that a develpoer rushes a change through testing and production and skips checking in the change, we have since made changes to our policies to keep this from happening, but I wonder if the overhead of compiling a site on the server whenever the app pool restarts is a big enough problem that we should avoid uploading our code directly to the server. It would be easier to check the version in source control vs the actual live version if we could download the live source. </p>
  
  <p>What are the advantages of precompiling VS uploading cs files directly to the server and having them compiled there?</p>