Include MVC 3 views in a Web Forms application

Question

I am developing one new area of a fairly large web application using MVC3 and Razor, where the rest of the application is ASP.NET 4 Web Forms based. Can I include my MVC components in this application, and what do I have to do to achieve this?

Answer 1

Our experience has been that WebForms and MVC work well side-by-side in the same application, but not mixed. In other words, each page can either be WebForms or MVC, but it can't very easily include elements of both. The two main work-arounds I've found are:

• Make all your MVC elements heavily AJAXified, so that they can be loaded dynamically via AJAX after the page loads.
• Have two versions of your master pages, and anything else "common" to your web application, to make the MVC portions of your application have the same look and feel as the WebForms portions.

We use the latter approach.

Answer 2

http://www.packtpub.com/article/mixing-asp.net-webforms-and-asp.net-mvc

That should get you on the right road. If it was me personally though, i'd add a new project to your solution that is MVC, you can then just configure a Virtual Directory in IIS /MVCApp