Combining ASP.NET Webiste and ASP.NET MVC3

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Hi,

We have a website running that is completely ASP.NET (version 3.5). The website has grown well over time. We have a new project in mind, which we want to apply ASP.NET MVC3 for.

My question is, if we try to design and move toward MVC3, is there a way to link the old ASP.NET website to MVC3 application? or would this cause any problems? for example can a link for the previous domain (myDomain.com) be extended in the ASP.NET website, where in if you go to myDomain.com/newProject would run the mvc3 app?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Posted 14-Feb-12 9:53am

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Updated 14-Feb-12 9:54am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-14T10:29:00

Why not? A Web site is still a Web site, MVC-based or not. It should not cause any problems if your legacy Web site was reasonably designed. Further detail highly depends on your existing code, required modifications and, first of all, on how tightly do you want to integrate them. If your legacy site does not have critical bugs and the coupling is going to be very loose, consider the problem is already solved (after all, two unrelated sites can just add a few references to each other; can it change their functionality?). If you need tighter integration — it depends.

You need to develop a sound plan of integration, perhaps with intermediate stages keeping both parts of production. In this approach, you could migrate from a very loose integration to more tight in stages. Again, it highly depends of existing and required functionality.

—SA

Wonde Tadesse · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-14T12:39:00

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It's pretty much easy. The following article explained clearly how to do it.Integrating ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing upgraded ASP.NET 4 Web Forms applications[^]

Posted 14-Feb-12 12:39pm

Wonde Tadesse

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-12 18:56pm

Basically agree, but in reality -- it depends of factors I tried to overview.
My 5.
--SA

Wonde Tadesse 14-Feb-12 19:12pm

Thanks. "A Web site is still a Web site ..." Somehow right. Perhaps they all will be viewed in browser. However the technology determines how they are developed. Asp.Net WebForm, MVC or a Jsp JSF , PHP ... technology wise they are still different.

robroysd 14-Feb-12 19:11pm

Thank you much...

Wonde Tadesse 24-Apr-12 19:32pm

Thanks

Espen Harlinn 28-Feb-12 14:19pm

5'ed! :)

Wonde Tadesse 24-Apr-12 19:32pm

Thanks

VJ Reddy 23-Apr-12 19:30pm

+5

Wonde Tadesse 24-Apr-12 19:32pm

Thanks

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