Lazycoder

Make Multiple Visual Studio .NET Projects Participate in the Same Web Application

Make Multiple Visual Studio .NET Projects Participate in the Same Web Application:

(Via Weblogs @ ASP.NET.)

This is exactly what we are doing for the next version of a project I’m working on. We’ve broken each disease or large functionality out into a “modules” directory (e.g. /modules/breast, /modules/kidney) and we’re going to put the ASP.NET controls and webforms specific to the cancer into a separate Visual Studio project. That way, participating institutions can unzip the modules they want to run into the /modules directory, change an XML configuration file, and go. At some point I want to make the modules autodiscoverable. But there are some issues with loading assemblies into the AppDomain at will.