Question

I am refering to this article from Jimmy Bogard

He is suggesting two projects to organize your ASP.NET MVC solution.

Basically, one project for the code and another for the rendering

My concern is about global.asax file.

Jimmy suggested separating global.asax from global.asax.cs and put them in two differents projects

When I did this, I could not compile my solution.

I got this error : Could not load type ‘MyProject.Web.Global’.

Can someone help and show me how to solve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

It is so easy to reproduce the issue

• Create a new MVC2 application :Web.UI
• Add to the solution, a new class library type project : Web.Code
• Move from Web.UI to Web.Code the following:
  • Controllers
  • Models
  • Global.asax.cs
• In this second project, add a reference to
  • System.Configuration
  • System.Web
  • System.Web.Mvc
  • System.Web.ApplicationSewrvices
  • System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
  • System.Web.Routing

Compile and run

---

UPDATE

I found what was wrong

in global.asax file, I was not indicating the new namespace in the “inherits” attribute

   <%@ Application  Inherits="Project2.Global" Language="C#" %>