Question

I’d like to add MVC support to an existing Website project (not a Web application project) and have a few questions.

1. To get Visual Studio’s MVC goodness, it appears that I need to update the .csproj file’s <ProjectTypeGuids> node. There is no csproj file in a website project.
2. It appears that I need to create Models and Controllers folder in the App_Code. Is this true? I prefer having these folders under root.
3. For Views should I be creating a aspx and aspx.cs files? Is cshtml razor files supported in this kind of a setup?

Any other responses are appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

I’ve successfully added a ASP.NET MVC 3 to Webforms project and here are some suggestions:

• Add Controllers as a separate class library project and add a reference to this project from the Web forms web project
• I attempted to get VS MVC support (like goto controller etc), but adding the GUID {E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401} to the .csproj file didn’t help.
• Yes, you can add references to get the Session from your class library. You can always mock it out if you want to write unit tests.
• Add Views folder to the root
• Add Models within App_Code
• If you are using Razor, then you need to add System.Web.Razor and System.Web.WebPages references
• If you are using Razor, update the Web.config per this post
• Keep in mind, you can add server controls to your view as long as they don’t use postbacks (I had a lot of server controls from my webforms project that I had to use)