Call controllers from one project to another project

Question

I'm using Asp.net MVC4 with razor. I want to know how to call a controller from one project to another project in a same solution. (I'm new to MVC4)

Answer 1

You can simply add your controllers to another project (class lib or MVC project, etc...) We have a couple projects that share controllers(webAPI as well as MVC). I typically use area constraints for the API controllers and namespace constraints for MVC controllers- especially if you have something like a base HomeController.cs used for some projects and you want to override it in just one particular MVC application project.

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
            namespaces: new[] { "Common.MVC.Controllers" }
        );