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Amir Ismail
Amir Ismail

Reputation: 3883

use web form master page as master page for ASP.Net MVC views programatically

We have a running solution contains many web forms application with the same master page, we created a class library project for master page and its controls and reference it as a dll inside each web form application and assign master page programatically

Now we will add two new application to our solution but we decided to use ASP.Net MVC 3 for building these new applications.

The problem is, we must use the same master page for the new applications, so how can we set the master page for our views using code?

Take care to remember our master page is a class library project.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4834

Answers (3)

imran_ku07
imran_ku07

Reputation: 1404

Amir, I uploaded a working sample at here. Steps,

1) Downloaded and converted a sample application from here.

2) Add a MVC 3 application in this solution and Add reference the class library of above solution.

3) Specify the MasterPage in MVC view(either in view, MasterPageFile="~/MasterPageDir/MasterPage.master" or in controller return View("Index",masterName: MasterPageVirtualPathProvider.MasterPageFileLocation);).

4) Put these lines in global.asax.

MasterPageVirtualPathProvider vpp = new MasterPageVirtualPathProvider();
HostingEnvironment.RegisterVirtualPathProvider(vpp);

Upvotes: 1

BentOnCoding
BentOnCoding

Reputation: 28208

If you really want to go the MVC route moving forward then you should probably invest some time to convert your master page to a layout. Everything else would be a hack/workaround.

Upvotes: 1

Jan
Jan

Reputation: 16038

Look at this articles to get an overview about mixing Webforms with MVC:

Another interesting project is Zeus when it comes to a mixed Webforms/MVC solution. It contains helpers to use HtmlHelper and UrlHelper on Webform pages.

Upvotes: 3

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