Sitefinity 5.2 is a web application, right?

I recently downloaded and tried to develop user controls (I think you call it widget) to the cms. I noticed that I have to build the project the make the code behind to work.

So the Sitefinity CMS is a web application, right? not the website?

Is there a way to make it works like a website to avoid the compile time?

Sometimes when I change the code behind and build the project but the front-end doesn't change, is that because of the cache? can I disable it for development environment? (I have to make a tiny modification to web.config to make the latest version of my user control to work)

Any ideas or suggestion please let me know.
Thank you very much

Hi Nattawut,

Yes, Sitefinity is a web application, which is good in my opinion! :)
I'm not sure if you can convert it to a website. I once worked with such configuration, but I'm not sure how they managed to run it as a website. I ran into all kind of troubles though.

Regarding the changes: You could try to disable the caching of the site, while developing? Goto:

Hi Daniel,

thank you for your suggestion. I also think web application is better. I am having problem with only the cache thing. I'll try the settings you say. Thank you very much for your help.

regards,
Nattawut