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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:25:14+00:00

First shot at throwing a question on these boards so hopefully I can get

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First shot at throwing a question on these boards so hopefully I can get some help, here goes:

I am working to start up the .NET practice at my client. We have 5 small scale .NET applications in place currently with a few them of them live into production. They’re mostly small reporting pieces with some data entry/business logic functionality. Each of these applications is currently using the identical master pages.

What I mean is that there is a copy of the same master page in each application. They are all basic website->WCF->BL->DB tiered applications. So I have 4 copies of the same master page that I have to change when I make a change to it.

The client DOES NOT want to consolidate all of these into a single solution. They like the separation of applications across sites. I just don’t want to continue dealing with the hassle of multiple updates for common elements (which there will be many more of across these applications).

The code is all stored in team foundation server. We also do NOT want to compile the master page into a .dll and deploy it.

Can anyone please make some suggestions as to how I can maintain a single copy of these common files (master, .css, etc) across my multiple applications.

thanks in advance

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  1. You might want to look at Sharing Master Pages in Visual Studio.

    If that is no help then you could try using Build Events in Visual Studio. I would pick one of the projects to be my ‘Main Project’ and only edit the master page from that project. When you build the project it would run a command that would copy that master page(if it had changed) to your set locations.

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