Share a folder between two Asp.Net web applications in the same solution

Question

Hi,

I'm currently working on an Asp.net MVC Web application. In my solution, there're two projects: front office and back office. I'd like to share a folder that'll contain resources such as images, documents, etc... that'll be uploaded through the web application.

For example, when I upload an image using the back office, I only need to store the name of the image in my database, that way I'll be able to use this image in my front office part. So I need to share a folder between both my applications.

Thanks for responses!

Answer 1

You could use a branch within your source control environment if that is what you're asking.

-Shaun

Answer 2

As you have two Applications, I think the best thing to do it is: To Create a new Virtual Directory that maps to that folder(where the files are) into the second Application and then to write a HttpHandler that get the files from there.