Asp.Net 5 - On the fly compilation

Question

I just got an ASP.NET 5 Web API Application running in Visual Studio code by following this guide and I can launch the application by executing the command "dnx . web". How can I make the application build on the fly when I make changes to the source file ?

Update - This seems to be an open issue. Link 1 , Link 2

Answer 1

dnx . web --watch dnx . web --watch is the command that you are looking for.

However, there is a caveat when you do that from command line: when a file changes, the server is stopped.

When you do the same from VS 2015, VS knows how to restart the server when it stops.

Answer 2

I noticed I had the same problem, and it seems to work more or less as expected if you run your site without the debugger attached.

I think the debugger is more sensitive to changes in cs files, and does't want them to change while it's trying to trace/step through them.

At first I thought it was related to the CLR type you use to run it, but I can change that and it works as long as youre not debugging.