How to mix WebForms and MVC in ASP.NET

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I have an existing ASP.NET WebForms 3.0 application that works just fine. I upgraded it to ASP.NET 4 and it still works great, but now I want to add some ASP.NET MVC pages to it. I don't want to rewrite the application.

Any suggestions? Can I mix them? How to work it? Any tutorials for me?

IrishChieftain · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-05 03:21:23Z

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Take a look at Scott Hanselman's blog article on this very topic:

Integrating ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing upgraded ASP.NET 4 Web Forms applications

answered Jul 5, 2012 at 3:21

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Jim Raden Over a year ago

This advice might be obsolete with ASP.NET 4. I'm searching for it but haven't found it yet. I know Scott now talks about how Microsoft now recommends mixing them together in the same project. I think his article might still work -- it's definitely worth a try. But MVC 4 changes a few things about the web project initialization so his old blog post might break in a few places.

Sunil Raj · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-05 04:21:42Z

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You have to mention this line of code in the Global.asax file in the MVC application.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{WebPage}.aspx/{*pathInfo}");

This disables the MVC routing for the files of extension .aspx

answered Jul 5, 2012 at 4:21

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user1478501 Over a year ago

Thanks all~~is work for me. but how do i call the MVC application page in Asp.net webform application? since Url link and Html link is not valid under .net html page.. any example..?

Sunil Raj Over a year ago

You can use <%=ResolveUrl("~/{controller}/{action}/")%> in your anchor links. Substiture {controller} with your controller name and {action} with your action name. eg.: <%=ResolveUrl("~/home/index/")%>

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