Hello,

I am creating a new application. I will have the project with many components and want them to have as plug and play kinds. Say I have a project ABC and contains different modules like event management, education management etc. etc. Now as in web application project i can have them as sub projects. How can i achieve the same in Website Projects? What factors i will need to consider? I believe it is a new way of doing things and read at few places that it gives more flexible approach but did get that information clarified "HOW?" How will it make my life in this case easier?

I read the some good articles from Omar and Scott on web application projects but they dont explain how i can achieve the same thing using Website Project Architecture of VS 2005.

A good feedback on this will be appreciated.

Regards,
Imran.

You might take a look at Shaun Walker's post for DotNetNuke.  They have a module architecture that works with Website Projects.

http://forums.asp.net/1114393/ShowPost.aspx

One of the big differences is that with the Website Project Project model you're primarily looking at a deploying modules as source files that get copied into another website.  Sharing the same App_Code folder.  This can be problematic if the main website is in a different language than the module.  For example module is in C# and the main website is in VB.  You can get around this by creating a sub-code folder for each module.

You can also use Web Deployment Projects to pre-compile Website projects into deployable modules.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx

I think the simplest way to develop modules is using Web Application Projects and deploying a binary to bin along with the corresponding pages.

Hope this helps,
Brad.