Sharing ASP.NET MVC partial views between projects

Question

What is the best way to share a common Partial View between applications? I\'ve created a separate assembly containing my Partial View in an ascx file, some scripts that go wit

Answer 1

This is an ongoing issue even with WebForms. Sharing this stuff is not easy.

My prefered approach now is to create my controls either as mvc WebControls or as jQuery plugins. That way I can pass around a versioned DLL or script file.

I lean heavily towards the WebControls solutions because, like I said, I can version it and put it in the company infrastructure framework.

I then (only) use PartialViews to render the webcontrols and add some basic flair, markup or content.

Answer 2

A nice question indeed.

I would suggest avoiding ascx files and generating HTML manually in your HTML helpers. TagBuilder class does a great deal of help here.

Answer 3

This post discusses how to embed a view in a DLL and render it from a different project. I guess it'll work for partials as well, but I haven't tried it.

Answer 4

Our approach with WebForms has been to create an IIS virtual directory for shared user controls. Does this approach work with MVC?