Question

I am having two different websites and I want to access the second website’s home page as a link in the first website. But I am getting the problem in merging them in visual studio(2008). And also what to do with two web.config files.
I had also tried to copy all the files of second project in the first project but it doesn’t work out.
what are the possible ways to merge two websites.?

Answer 1

Put the two websites in separate VisualStudio projects within a single VisualStudio solution or you could put the second website in a folder within the first project and do:

HttpContext.Response.Redirect("~/ProjectB/PageInProjectB.aspx");


<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkLink" runat="server"
NavigateUrl="~/ProjectB/PageInProjectB.aspx"> Link </asp:HyperLink>

where ProjectB is the new folder in the first project.

See Response.Redirect from one web project to another in Visual Studio

You can only really have one web.config in a project. You can have more but these are usually used for different publishing environments, for example a dev and live deployment. (dev is used for testing stuff and live is the actual site people use)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9d9ats98.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zk4ahe0t(v=vs.90).aspx

EDIT: I also suggest you checkout http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials to get more familiar with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Web Forms.