Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Imran — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:36:56 GMT

This article is great as i was planning to have some plug and play modules in my web application. Can you tell me how i can achieve similar thing using the default web architecture in VS 2005.

Also when i compile how will i have to do the compilation if i only want one module to be compiled.

How can i call the web.config connection string etc. in the master project from the sub project files.

Also where are the other 2 parts of this article :).

Thanks,
Imran

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

markoh — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:03:32 GMT

The advice with setting project output to ..\bin\ is a bit misleading. I prefer using references in projects. So instead of compiling subproject into ..\bin\ just add a reference to it in the root project and it will get compiled (or more accurately) copied in the root's bin folder.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

sujitha — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:10:52 GMT

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Chad — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:49:21 GMT

Thanks for this. I have been looking for resources on creating subprojects using the new VS 2005 model for some time now but have found almost nothing in this area. I am anxiously awaiting your next two parts!

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Steve Hebert — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:39:18 GMT

I did this with VS2003 a few years back. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem with Windows XP Embedded. It turns out the html header sent back from XPE's IE caused a hickup in the .NET pipeline. We reverted to top-level projects to work around the problem.

I opened a ticket with MS support back then and they verified. You may to double check if that was fixed - it would be nice to know. It would be nice to know if this was fixed in .Net vs. XPE - XPE machines tend to live on islands and not get updated as often as other boxes.

-Steve

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

scottgu — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:48:30 GMT

Hi Imran,

If your root project is referencing the sub-projects, then you should go ahead and create a reference from it to them.

However, if your sub-projects are referencing the root project, you'll want to use the ..\bin approach Omar outlined above.

Hope this helps,

Scott

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:48:59 GMT

Hello Imran,

Doing this type of componentization is not well suited to the default "website" model, so I would recommend using "web application project" add-in for it.

As for accessing resources in the root project from a sub-project, I will be explaining that in my next blog post. I'll try to have that out later this week.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:52:11 GMT

Hello Markoh,

You are right, creating a project reference in the root project to the various sub-projects does result in the DLL getting copied into the root project's \bin folder. This technique works and can also be used.

The main reason I recommended changing the sub-projects output path was because it doesn't result in two copies of each sub-project's output DLL (one the \bin of the sub-project and one in the \bin of the root project).

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Tejas — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:48:57 GMT

I don't see this option "Complie" so I can't change the settings.

Under the “Compile” page change the “Build output path” to “..\bin\”.

Any help?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:34:21 GMT

Hello Tejas,

I use VB in my example. If you are using C#, then the tab for the Build output path settering is labeled "Build".

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

samstapin — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:46:06 GMT

Because or until Commerce Server 2007 is released we are tied to VS 2003.

Will this approach work in VS 2003?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Amit — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:49:03 GMT

Omar,
I work at a Financial Institution and we act as an ASP (App. Service Provider) of LOS (web-based Loan Origination System). We have close to 140+ web application projects each for every client.

If I take this approach of sub-projects and if I make a change in a code-behind of aspx pages in one of my sub-projects will it re-compile the entire project or can I re-compile just the sub-project?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:49:22 GMT

Hello samstapin,

Yes this approach works in VS2003 although the specific steps to set it up are different.

-Omar

How to share the root site's ascx in sub project

Polo Lee — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:45:20 GMT

Hi.

This is a greate ideal, but one issue is,
If I want to reuse the root project's ASCX web control, there is no way to review the ascx design in subproject's page, even when run time, the ascx works fine....

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:46:32 GMT

Hello Polo,

In my next part which I plan to post shortly, I'll show how to use an ASCX in the root project from a sub-project. There is a limitation on design view not displaying it fully, however at run-time it should work fine.

--Omar

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Dom — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:05:03 GMT

In VS 2003, I remember that I didn't need to create a seperate WAP. I just made a sub folder and createed .aspx pages in that. When compiling the project, the sub pages were compiled into the root bin.

So, with VS 2005, I have to make a new WAP project within the existing one?

One other way is to make two seperate WAP and copy the .dll's into the applicable "bin" folders of the virtual folders in IIS (one being a sub folder).

remote servers

Rich — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:41:27 GMT

Thanks for the information. it has answered a lot of questions i was asking myself, regarding setting up a project with sub projects. One thing though. i would like to set this up on a remote server, rather than have the files reside on my local workstation. is this possible?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Michel — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:45:42 GMT

Hello Omar,

Does this structure works with Visual Web Developer Express?
I look for infoormations about VWDExpress "limitations". Is it possible to have solutions (or an equivalent) like .sln in VS2003? Or it is necessary to use another version?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:48:54 GMT

Hello Dom,

A subproject is not required by any means. You can still create subfolders in a WAP project and put ASPX pages in them just like VS2003. The primary reason to do a subproject is if you want pages in a sub-folder to compile into a different assembly.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:50:09 GMT

Hello Rich,

WAP projects only support development on a local server. I will be adding a post soon about how to do sub-project using the built-in ASP.NET develpoment server. That might be a usable option for you if you are unable to put IIS on your local machine.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:52:33 GMT

Hi Michel,

The WAP project option only works with Visual Studio Std and higher. You can however use the default "Website" option in VWD Express which gives the core functionality needed to develop ASP.NET apps. As well, VWD Express does support solutions, in that you can have mutliple "Websites" in a solution.

-Omar

Using with WDP

Chad Lee — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:48:00 GMT

How would you use this sub-project architecture in conjunction with WDP? Would you attach the web deployment project to the Root Project alone or would you attach 2 wdp's to the root and sub-project each? What are the consequences/side effects of using WDP with this architecture?

Also, where are the next two parts? :)

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Baishakhi — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:02:02 GMT

Hello Mr.Khan,

I recently saw your post and found it great for starters. I am also a starter and I am working in a similar application. But my approach has been a little different. Instead of creating a web application as a project I have created a blank solution. And added to it other web application projects as and when required.

Is the approach right? If not,then what is wrong with it?

If you can , could you answerme at baishakhibanerjee@yahoo.com

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Martin — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:45:15 GMT

Thanks for this post, it will be very useful. One question though, what happens with the "Themes" if we delete the web.config file. I thought that the line "<pages theme = "MyThemeName" />" was important in the "<system.web>" section in order to have my web application compiled with my theme definitions. Is there a way to link to another web.config file? ... or am I just missing something since the beginning?

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Eladio — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:58:56 GMT

Hello Omar,

On the root project, is there a way for the root project to self discover the sub-project.

I guess the goal is to have a root project but not to have a reference to the sub projects.

The root project would look in a sub directory under the root project for dll's and automatically load them.

Thanks,

Eladio

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Ian Suttle — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:07:36 GMT

I was doing a similar approach with 2003. An additional benefit for changing the output path is to avoid referencing new WAP projects after initial deployment. If you were to reference the sub project from the root and release it, then later add another sub project, you would have to alter the root project again. That definitely isn't a desired scenario in a large application where the purpose of a sub project is to segregate workload or minimize code affected in a single project release.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

John — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:33:01 GMT

thanks it really helped

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

New bee — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:43:59 GMT

Hi all,
I have splitted the project. Very Nice.
I also splitted the user web controls as a project. Now i cant use the controls in other sub projects.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

steveculshaw — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:05:37 GMT

Thanks for this information, really useful. Keep up the good work

Cheers,
Steve C.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:44:30 GMT

Hello New bee,

Please see part 2 of this post for information about user controls across projects.

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2006/08/15/701642.aspx

--Omar

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Ryan Reid — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:25:16 GMT

In our model, we can't reference the sub-project in the main project because it isn't known at design time. I've found that if you are dynamically loading controls, you HAVE to have the assembly in the MAIN /bin/ path and not in a private path. Is there any workaround to this?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Ashish Agrawal — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:11:31 GMT

Why we have 2 diffrent attributes in @Page for WAP and WSP. WSP used CodeFile where WAP use CodeBehind. Is there any functional requirement behind this? Can't both be same?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Ashish Agrawal — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:38:26 GMT

I got the answer my self. WAP and WSP can't share same attribute. If they share, it will result in runtime error becuase WSP will create assembly for code, which is already included in another assembly ( Generated as WAP ).

Try to get single Attribute will require to have a big change in ASP.NET compiler it self.

Thanks for the thread, it helped me to get some answers.

Sub-web Projects using VS 2005 Web Application Projects

inventive title — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:39:03 GMT

Omar Khan, GPM for the VS 2005 web tools has posted a lengthy example of how to create a partitioned

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Alan — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:22:32 GMT

OK - how do I get around " The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file. "?

I can not change Output Path is VS 2003

Vinix — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:06:15 GMT

The value "..\bin\" can not be saved and restored to "bin\" after pressing "Apply". Any idea why this happened?

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Rob — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:12:37 GMT

As per Amit:

...We have close to 140+ web application projects ....

If I take this approach of sub-projects and if I make a change in a code-behind of aspx pages in one of my sub-projects will it re-compile the entire project or can I re-compile just the sub-project?

Amit

********************************************

I have the same question. If I make changes to one project will I have to re-compile the whole solution including all the sub-projects?

Thanks

Part 3 of 3: Creating sub-projects using the Visual Studio Development Server and Web Application Projects

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:38:24 GMT

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:42:35 GMT

Hello Rob,

Yes, if you make a change to a sub-project, the other projects will not get compiled. Breaking a very large app into smaller compilation units is one benefit of this approach.

Trouble creating sub-projects with VS 2005 SP1?

David — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:09:13 GMT

I just installed the VS 05 SP1. I also installed the WAP add in. I think I got things set up right. Both .dlls are in the MyLargeWebApp\bin. When I run the root page it works fine. When I run the sub project I get the following error on Line 1:

Server Error in '/' Application.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Parser Error

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'SubProject1._Default'.

Source Error:

Line 1: <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="SubProject1._Default" %>

Line 2:

Line 3: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

David

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Frank — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:22:25 GMT

Can you please offer some advice on deploying the sub project? The publish feature compiles the entire sub project into it's own bin folder. I dabbled with Web Deployment Projects but don't yet understand them completely or if they are capable of accomplishing what I need. Maybe another article?

Thanks,

Frank

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Kevin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:10:44 GMT

Hi all , very nice site! Thank You !

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re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Jester — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:06:25 GMT

I have a Sub-Project set up to use ASP.NET AJAX. My Master file and Web.config file are in the root project. My file lookup.aspx that implements the master file is in the Sub-Project. All references to the AJAX library are included in both root and sub projects. My problem is that when I start trying to include <asp:updatepanel in the lookup.aspx the designer complains that it doesnt know what an update panel is and subsequently nothing is added to the designer file.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

WebDevTools — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:00:46 GMT

Hi Jester - can you verify that an update panel works properly in the root project? If that works send me an email (omark-at-microsoft-dot-com) and i'll see if I can help understand what is happening.

re: Part 1 of 3: Creating sub-projects in IIS with Web Application Projects

Mark B — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:50:10 GMT

I presented this at my company and was told (after working on this for a week!) that the all of the sub-apps would be running in the same process, so if an unhandled error occurred in one sub-app it could cause the application pool to become corrupt and force a recycling that would affect every sub-app. This could cause a loss of all session data in every app.

Since i am a noob I have no idea if this true. Help!

-Mark

PS-I noticed that this structure allows you to share session variables between applications

AJAX in subprojet "Element name is not a known element"

Jelle Ossewaarde — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:43:19 GMT

I encounter that the subproject throws an error on AJAX: "Element name is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site." I use the method in which after a build the ascx are copied into the root bin : http://webproject.scottgu.com/visualbasic/usercontrols/usercontrols.aspx

Jelle

AJAX control toolkit not working in subproject style.

Jelle — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

I have same problem as with AJAX, but then with the controltoolkit.

Error 2 The name 'MyAccordion' does not exist in the current context Error 3 Element 'Accordion' is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site.

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="V4A.Modules.PNGT.ViewPNGT" CodeFile="ViewPNGT.ascx.cs" AutoEventWireup="true" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Namespace="System.Web.UI" TagPrefix="asp" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl" TagPrefix="ajaxToolkit" %>

<ajaxToolkit:Accordion id="MyAccordion" runat="server" TransitionDuration="150" FadeTransitions="true" AutoSize="None" HeaderCssClass="pnavH">

</ajaxToolkit:Accordion>

</div>

RESOLVED: AJAX control toolkit

Jelle — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:42:01 GMT

http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.com/Walkthrough/Setup.aspx

The designer did not have the items in the toolbox. A pitty, but solved.

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Introduction The recent release of WCSF 1.1 includes support for the Web Application Projects . Not only

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