I have a web application that has been built as two. One is physically located within the file structure of the other. I am trying to integrate the child app into the parent app and consolidate all classes to the parent, to begin large scale ASPclassic-to-ASP.NET conversion of this app. Also, I'm trying to do this without creating a new parent project from scratch (it's a big app).
I have moved all ASP.NET folders to the parent (app_code, app_data, etc) and removed the (child) application from IIS. But the folder that contained the child app will not show up within the parent in VS. I can drag the folder into the parent project and it shows up as expected, but when I close and reopen the project it is gone again.
Facts
- Parent App is ASPclassic
- Child App is 80/20 ASPclassic and ASP.NET
- Neither global.asa or global.asax exist in the child directory, both exist at the parent app root
- No ASP.NET folders exist in the child folders
- Running on IIS 6.0
- The child app works fine as is
- The child app can still be opened separately, but obviously intellisense no longer works for custom classes that are now in the parent.
I'm assuming VS still sees the child as a separate app, therefore excludes it from the parent. So, what am I missing? What is preventing VS from showing this subfolder? Is it possible to merge to apps in this manner?