ASP.NET deployment error

Question

I am attempting to deploy a change to a legacy ASP.NET solution. I have copied over the views and css files, but when I try to copy over a modified assembly, I get this error when the application runs:

Compiler Error Message: BC30456: 'InitializeCulture' is not a member of 'ASP.dashboard_aspx'.

I understand that the site may need to recompile itself, but it is complaining about a view I haven't changed. It is also griping about missing member InitializeCulture which I can't even find a reference for in my code.

The site works fine in debug and when deployed locally BTW.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In the end I lost patience with trying to deploy what I thought had changed and simply published the website to a directory and then copied that over en masse.

Clearly there is some code or linkage somewhere that I had overlooked but the error message is a complete red herring.