I have a web application, which has a user control and web page logic to be used on multiple web applications. The reason I want to do this is that I want the other web applications to reference this one since the html/css of their web pages varies.
First of all I wanted to ask if this is possible since it is a web application and not a class library.
Secondly if it is possible how do I refrence the web page logic to the htmls of the other web applications?
Hi,
Compile and deploy your asp.net website which will produce one assembly per code-behind.
Pick the assembly of the code-behind class you want to re-use and drop it into the \bin folder of your 2nd web-app in which you want to reuse it.
Now this assembly will have a partial class which you can merge with the code-behind of an existing web-page. Just ensure the naming hierarchy are matching.
How about adding the Web User Control to a Class Library and referencing that Class Library from the website ?
Here are instructions by Haacked on how to add a User Control to a Class Library: http://haacked.com/archive/2006/02/07/AddingWebUserControlToAClassLibraryInVS.NET2005.aspx
Also here is a post by Guthrie about Building Re-Usable ASP.NET User Control and Page Libraries with VS 2005 and I think it's worth a look.
[Update]
I found a better tutorial on Creating and Using User Control Libraries. I think that this article is more concise than the other one by Guthrie (also this one is also by Guthrie)