# Visual Web Developer Express 2005 Limitations

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visual-web-developer-express-2005-limitations/220942>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 30, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visual-web-developer-express-2005-limitations/220942 "2007-03-30T16:13:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dredwerks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dredwerks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dredwerks)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visual-web-developer-express-2005-limitations/220942/1 "2007-03-30T16:13:17Z")

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Greetings all,

This is my first post on [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com). I find the site super useful and check it regularly for new tutorials. Great work. I have two questions that you may be able to help with.

First: On the 4th page of the tutorial **Creating a Simple [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) Application** it shows the build menu of Visual Web Developer Express 2005 (VWDE05) with more options than I have on mine (Publish … for instance). Is there a way to have those options for free? Was this an error?

Second: In attempting to build an [asp.net](http://asp.net) application in c# with external .cs classes stored in the App\_Code folder I have no problem previewing the app in the browser from within VWDE05. However, when I copy the files to my local wwwroot (windows 2000 pro, IIS, [asp.net](http://asp.net) 2.0 etc…) I get an error indicating that the code in the external file is not accessible. I have tried many workarounds for this including namespaces but nothing has worked so far, as I am just learning C# and [asp.net](http://asp.net), it may be my fault. Am I running up against a limitation in VWDE05? Is there a way to reference classes stored in App\_Code folder in .cs files from Default.aspx.cs with only VWDE05?

Thank you for your help.