ASP NET Temporary files cleanup

Question

Can I safely delete the contents of this folder     C  WINDOWS Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 Temporary ASP NET Files root   on a Windows 2003 R2 standard system  given that I am not using IIS  6 7  on it   If that is the case  could you please point me to the relevant documentation about ASP NET s runtime and maintenance tasks such as this

User · Accepted Answer

Yes  it s safe to delete these  although it may force a dynamic recompilation of any  NET applications you run on the server   For background  see the Understanding ASP NET dynamic compilation article on MSDN

User · Answer

Just an update on more current OS s  Vista  Win7  etc   - the temp file path has changed may be different based on several variables   The items below are not definitive  however  they are a few I have encountered    temp  environment variable setting - then it would be    temp  Temporary ASP NET Files   Permissions and what application process  VS  IIS  IIS Express  is running the  Net compiler  Accessing the C  WINDOWS Microsoft NET Framework folders requires elevated permissions and if you are not developing under an account with sufficient permissions then this folder might be used   c  Users  youruserid  AppData Local Temp Temporary ASP NET Files   There are also cases where the temp folder can be set via config for a machine or site specific using this    lt compilation tempDirectory  d  MyTempPlace    gt    I even have a funky setup at work where we don t run Admin by default  plus the IT guys have login scripts that set  temp  and I get temp files in 3 different locations depending on what is compiling things   And I m still not certain about how these paths get picked    sigh   Still  dthrasher is correct  you can just delete these and VS and IIS will just recompile them as needed

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