Multiple ASP.NET MVC projects that builds as single ASP.NET MVC Application

Question

We want to split our large asp.net mvc web application into multiple Visual Studio projects so that each team can independently on their visual studio project.

Desired structure is:

1. ASP.NET MVC application that is responsible for the base UI
2. Module 1 - VS Project (Does this need to be a ASP.net MVC App or .dll?)
3. Module 2 - VS Project (Does this need to be a ASP.net MVC App or .dll?)
4. so on....

Each module should contain it's own controller & views that are responsible for functioning of the module. T

How to split the ASP.NET Application in to multiple projects and then merge them as a single website during build process?

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC V2 has a feature called Areas which allows you to have separate projects referenced by the main application. Check out ScottGu's post.

Answer 2

The problem is sorted out by just creating multiple MVC projects and merging the output at the end by simple copy & paste :)

here is the structure we followed:

• MyApp.Web.Shell (just contains themes, css, js & images required for the web app)
• MyApp.Web.Home
• MyApp.Web.UserManagement
• MyApp.Web.DeviceManagement
• MyApp.Web.ContentManagement
• .....etc...

At the end we are using build scripts to merge output of all the projects and generate the files required for the total web app to run.

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