Call from one MVC5 project method to another MVC5 project method not loading aspx page

Question

  Hi, I have two projects, MVC5-1 and MVC5-2. Both are using .net 4.7.. I have installed MVC5 on both.

 I am trying to call a controller method from MVC5-2 (ShowMBStest())from MVC5-1.

There is a method in MVC5-2 that calls an x.aspx page. I can see it gets into the MVC5-2 method with debug, but when it runs the code it does not display the x.aspx page. This is the MVC5-2 method ( DisplayLoggingMaint() ) and code. 

This is the method in MVC5-1 that calls MVC5-2.

   public EmptyResult ShowMBStest() //MVC5-1

   {                  

        MBSAnalysisMVCWebApp.MBSAnalysisMainController iwebapp =

        new MBSAnalysisMVCWebApp.MBSAnalysisMainController();

        iwebapp.DisplayLoggingMaint("In a it");

          

         return new EmptyResult();

   }

public ActionResult DisplayLoggingMaint(string eData). //MVC5-2

 {

   //MbsTest.aspx is in the MVC5-2 root directory.
```        return Redirect("~/MbsTest.aspx");         

 } 

Instead it goes through this MVC5-2 DisplayLoggingMaint method, and then, continues through the MVC5-1 (ShowMBStest()) calling method, and it displays the ShowMBStest.cshtml. 

Thanks for any advice or suggestions 

Answer 1

Hi @iqworks Information Quality Works

First of all, an aspx page requires a lot of basic files to run. Such as Site.Master and Global.asax. You just move the file over and you won't get it running.

So my suggestion:

You create a webform project and generate an aspx file and run the project.

Next, change the redirected address in the controller to the URL of your webform project file.

Such as:

public ActionResult DisplayLoggingMaint(string eData). 
{          
return Redirect("https://localhost:44304/MbsTest");
 } 

Best regards,

Qi You

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Answer 2

As far as I can tell you created a project reference between two projects MVC1 and MVC2. In my opinion, this is not a good design. If you want to share code between MVC application either create a class library or a Web API project.