Hi,
We are developping multiple websites that have to share a lot of components: librairies, user controls, etc. We're really interested by the possibility of the new VS 2005 and especially masterpages. But up to now we didn't found the good way to share masterpages and user controls in VS 2005.
In VS 2003, we used virtual directory defined under IIS to shared user controls, libraries, etc.These directories defined logical projects grouping controls or applications funtions. We had one solution for one web sites and each solution includes the shared components through these virtual directories/
How can we share such items with VS 2005 ?
For example, we have installed the patch for the application project model available at http://webproject.scottgu.com/Default.aspx. We then made a solution which includes a website and a web application. We then defined a masterpage in the webapplication. We added a references in the web site to the web application and even so we were unable to derive a page in the web from this masterpage.
And more generally, we cannot see how we can share user controls and masterpage between different solutions ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated because we have to start to code a new site and the time is short. We consider the question of doing it using VS 2005 (we'd like to !) or staying with VS 2003.
Thank for your help