Integrating asp.net webforms and mvc

Question

I am developing an asp.net mvc website product that needs to allow customers to add their own content pages, outside of the project.

So the product will deliver a core set of pages (views) all using a master page. The clients can add their own web pages (.aspx) which I was hoping they could inherit from the MVC masterpage. Obviously there is no view context, so all of my html helpers, and Url.* calls fail.

What would be the best strategy to allow someone to add web pages into an mvc product, re-using as much of the structure as possible.

Answer 1

Scott Hanselman's blog post on how to mix together these technologies is required reading for anyone wanting to use ASP.NET MVC and classic ASP.NET together.

Plug-In Hybrids: ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Side By Side

Answer 2

What you are describing is a Content Management System. There are a number of those available for MVC. One of them is N2. N2 is a lightweight CMS framework to help you build web sites that anyone can update:

http://n2cms.com/

Another one is Oxite. Oxite is a pure MVC CMS:

http://www.codeplex.com/oxite

These are open-source, so you can break them open and see how they did it.