Is it possible to use my site.master master page ? I want to start using Spark more, but this project I am working on is using asp.net view pages as well.
I could of course convert the master page to an application.spark page, but I was wondering if it is at all possible to use the Site.Master I already have.
As far as i remember, had no problems with this. There are questions in stack that says there are.
Scenario that will work for sure - double your site.master in spark (make 2 master pages).
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I wanted to convert my views from aspx view engine to razor as we moving forward with new version of MVC, but it is hard to convert everything in single stretch as it is really huge,
is it possible to do it in parallel.
I mean does MVC allows to have few razor views as well as well aspx views and run with out any issues?, or what would be the work around?
Thanks in advance
Yes, the MVC does allow you to mix ASPX views and Razor views on one project.
The framework is very flexible. I've been involved with a couple sites using both aspx and Razorviews. The reason was ALWAYS that they were moving from one to another.
In these cases the aspx pages were not mass changed. New pages were universally Razor and aspx pages were only converted when serious work or re-work was already being done to them.
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there are many aspx to Razor converters. I don't recommend this approach but be aware this is Microsoft's app for convertion.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d2bfd1ca-9808-417c-b963-eb1ea4896790
Have you tried http://razorconverter.codeplex.com/ ?
It looks promising.
It had some issues with included controls a time ago, but I'm not to updated.
I am still unsure the best way to go about it.
I've read alsorts of resources, yet still no closer to a working solution.
I created a partial ASCX file. Added Report viewer to it, then rendered said partial in my CSHTML file. This was the closest I have come. In that I can see the report viewer, buttons etc. But for some reason the data never shows.
I have tried ASPX page inside an IFrame But this is not the way I want to go, about making this solution work.
Loading an ASPX page outright. But I lose my _Layout.cshtml main page style.
Some people suggest changing all sorts of things in config / Global.asax where as some say its not even necessary.
Ideally I want to have it as a partial in a page. But can deal with it being the only thing on the page, if I keep my main layout.
My experience with the older syntax / pages / non-MVC is limited to this project - trying to get this to work.
My data is linked through the components setup. The connection works fine in aspx page, as single page or iframe. But not in ascx.
The ReportView control requires ViewState to be enabled. In ASP.NET MVC such notion no longer exists. This means that you cannot use this control inside a native ASP.NET MVC view or partial. You can use it only in a classic WebForm (not in an ASP.NET MVC View) and the embed this WebForm inside an iframe within your current ASP.NET MVC view or partial. You have the possibility to render the report as an image for example and directly stream it to the response without using this control. Here's a blog post which illustrates the technique. So you could have a controller action which generates the report as a JPEG image and then link to this controller action from your view using the <img> tag. Unfortunately this makes only a static copy of the report and the user cannot interact with it.
You might also checkout this blog post which illustrates how you could run ASP.NET MVC and classic WebForms side by side.
I'm looking for a way to reference a shared external _layout.cshtml from MVC 3 and Razor.
A little back story:
We have multiple developers. All of them are working on separate MVC applications that all need the same look and feel. All these applications will be deployed to the same site for example
http://www.example.com/App1/
and
http://www.example.com/App2/
The look and feel will be generated by the CMS and dropped into a different folder
http://www.example.com/Layout/_layoutExt.cshtml
I've tried
MasterName = #"C:\inetpub\wwwroot\layout\_LayoutExt.cshtml";
But it gives me the error that it can't find the file
The view 'Index' or its master was not
found or no view engine supports the
searched locations. The following
locations were searched.
My eventual solution was to use Symbolic links (or junctions or hard links) to link the needed file into the view folder. This way the CMS writes to one location and my app reads from another. Not the clean solution I was looking for.
You'll probably need to make your own view engine that support reading file outside the web application home directory.
Can I upgrade my MVC2 project to MVC3 and continue to use my ASPX views, AND at the same time start writing some new views in Razor?
More specifically, Can I take an ASPX view page, and a Razor control in it? Would such a thing be possible?
Any other things one should look out for?
You can definitely mix view engines across totally separate views. As for putting Razor "controls" in an ASPX page, if you use RenderPartial, it should work.
One thing I would watch out for is that if you use Master Pages then you may end up duplicating them for both view engines. I had a good ol' WebForms Master Page, used by all my regular .aspx content files, but creating a new view using Razor means I have to use a duplicate Razor layout page alongside that old Master Page.
I haven't looked into it too much, but at first try I get 'The file "~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" could not be rendered, because it does not exist or is not a valid page.' and certainly there's nothing in Scott Gu's blog entry introducing Razor to suggest you can combine them, but I could be all wrong here.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MixingRazorViewsAndWebFormsMasterPagesWithASPNETMVC3.aspx
For how to mix view engine master pages...
I am adding MVC to a project that has MANY legacy webform pages. This works fine. However, I currently have a separate masterpage for MVC and for the webforms. The two master pages produce essentially identical output. I'd really like to kill the webforms one and just use the MVC master page with all my pages and stay DRY.
Not being DRY has already bitten me a couple times when I forgot to change both.
I tried doing the obvious way and just pointing the webform content page's MasterPage attribute at the MVC masterpage. This throws an error saying the MVC masters only work with MVC views.
This seems like it would be a pretty common problem with mixed MVC and webform projects. My MVC master isn't doing anything with ViewData, so I don't see any reason the webforms couldn't use them.
You can absolutely share the same master page. Your MVC master page must simply point to the WebForms masterpage via its MasterPageFile attribute. This applies your WebForms MasterPage styles to your MVC MasterPage.
I am using this setup in production.
The declaration on my MVC Master Page, pointing at the Web Forms Master Page:
<%# Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage/Site.Master"
AutoEventWireup="true" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" %>
Works like a charm.
This blog post walks you through the necessary steps to share WebForm and MVC master pages with little or no duplication. It also includes a sample project you can download, and I found it quite helpful.
One hiccup I ran into was that I was using a LoginStatus control in my header. LoginStatus must be inside a form so I couldn't use it in my root master page (not wanting to end up with nested forms on all my MVC pages). But that was a pretty easy control to replace with a simple code block in my root master page.
In my webforms app, my master page inherits from "HLPUSD.SMART.SMARTMaster" which is just the namespace for our application and then the name of the webform class.
In my MVC project, the master page inherits from "System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage"
Me thinks this has something to do with it?