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Asked: 2026-05-27T10:42:44+00:00

I’m setting up an Orchard CMS project with the intention of creating a module

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I’m setting up an Orchard CMS project with the intention of creating a module to house my MVC 3 application. This application has already been started and has 5 projects already. One web project, some test projects and a workflow project.

Requiring that the web project (and therefore the other 4 projects for simplicity) lives within /Orchard.Web/Modules/ is a minor inconvenience – is it possible to change where Orchard looks (or add a new location) when dynamically loading the modules?

It’s not a massive deal, but a nice to have for this project.

In an ideal world i’d be able to have:

/OrchardStuff/Orchard.Web
/OrchardStuff/etc
/MyStuff/MyProj.Web
/MyStuff/MyProj.Tests

I know i can arrange my sln in a nice usable way, would be nice if i could replicate this in the file system.

Cheers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Wouldn’t be easier to add an afterBuild task in your web project to copy the application to the Orchard’s modules directory?

    Something like that in the csproj file would do the trick (sort of, I am not entirely sure of my syntax. :'( )

    <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  <ItemGroup>
  <AppFiles Include="**\*.*"/>
  </ItemGroup>
  <Copy SourceFiles="@(AppFiles)"
        DestinationFiles="@(AppFiles->'..\OrchardStuff\Orchard.Web\Modules\MyModule\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />

</Target>

    The MSDN documentation is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e54c37h.aspx

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