title: .NET VirtualPathProviders and Pre-Compilation
body: <p>We've been working on an application that quite heavily relies on VirtualPathProviders in ASP.NET.</p>
  
  <p>We've just come to put the thing on a live server to demonstrate it and it appears that the VirtualPathProviders simply <em>don't work</em> when the site is pre-compiled!!</p>
  
  <p>I've been looking at the workaround which has been posted here: <a href="http://sunali.com/2008/01/09/virtualpathprovider-in-precompiled-web-sites/" rel="noreferrer">http://sunali.com/2008/01/09/virtualpathprovider-in-precompiled-web-sites/</a>, but so far I haven't been able to get that to work, either!  (Well - it works fine in visual studio's web development server - just not on our IIS box - again!).</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody here have any more information on the problem?  Is it fixed in .NET v3.5 (we're currently building for v2.0)?</p>