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Hi, I had an asp.net website which uses a lot of .apx files. I was told to convert it to a web application. I did that by creating an empty web application and copying the website folders and files from the website into this new web application. There where a few references I had to add to the web application, but, it finally worked. I have an MVC application that I added the web application dll to. and it works there, although it shows the home page for web applications. That’s ok, but I noticed that the web application dll was only 4.00 kb, and in the object viewer, and click the arrow, there is nothing there. In my MVC application, I try to use and using statement and I don’t see the web application dll in the using dropdown of available dll’s? I am stuck. Thanks for any advice or suggestions
If I understand correctly, you want to consume a Web Forms DLL in an MVC application but the results are not what you expect. You did not tell us the design goals but I'm guessing you expect the MVC application to host the Web Forms application. Well, that's not going to work because only the code behind pages are compiled (aspx.cs) not the aspx pages. Can you explain clearly, what you are trying to do?
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in a web application, the code behind files are compiled into one dll at build rather than at runtime like a website. but if you did not use code behind files, or still reference code behind as src="..." so they are built at runtime, then there is nothing to compile and the dll is mostly empty.
Hi AgaveJoe and
Bruce (SqlWork.com) thanks for the reply.
I had a asp.net legacy website folder. It uses many aspx files.
I wanted to put it in a web application because I was thinking that then I can reference this web application.dll from other projects, rather than have copies of this website folder in every project. I needed to call these website aspx files.
The thing is, I cannot use a “using” statement in my cs files. The using statement drop down does not show the web application.dll. I also got this explanation from
Bruce (SqlWork.com) (see answer 1). It was great and made a lot of sense when wondering why my web application dll was empty.
Then I found this :
https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/625947/how-to-call-a-aspx-page-from-mvc-view-page
Using .load you can load the entire .aspx file into a div in your mvc view or you can specify a certain div/block from your .aspx file to load in particular like so.
I guess I could create a view that is only used for those aspx pages I want to display.
But I would just like to call those aspx files from the web application and have them executed from there.
Thanks again you guys for any advice or suggestions.
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Hi @iqworks Information Quality Works
Depending on your problem, you want to move a web form project to an MVC project.
A DLL file is a source code file written in programming languages such as C++ and C#, which can be compiled by a compiler to generate a DLL file. In Webform projects, aspx files are the mainstay. Usually there is a aspx.cs file behind them that is used to write some server control events.
We don't know much about how your project is going at the moment. I think you can put the code you want to generate in the original project into the "Class library" to generate the dll file. Best regards,
Qi You
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