Sub application and sharing

I have 2 applications in my web site. The root application and a sub
application. I want them to share certain items like my header and footer
user controls. How do I do this? When ever I try and reference a file in
the main appliaction I get the below error.

Parser Error Message: The virtual path '/mainproject/header.ascx' maps to
another application, which is not allowed.

I don't want to combine them to one application because the sub project is a
forum and I would like to have its own web.config, etc...

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Bill

Bill

Hi,

You can share custom server controls between appliccations.
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/040421.htm

Natty Gur[MVP]

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Natty Gur

Thanks but I need a user control since 90% of the functionality is just
plain HTML. I don't want to write code just to print out all the tags. It
would also be hard to modify the HTML and format it later.

I found this article on how to do it but that is what I was doing and it
yields the same error:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324785

Bill

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> Hi,
>
> You can share custom server controls between appliccations.
> http://www.15seconds.com/issue/040421.htm
>
> Natty Gur[MVP]
>
> blog : http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur
> Mobile: +972-(0)58-888377
>
>
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Bill

FYI, I found the solution.

If you create a sub project and make it an application and try to share a
user control from the root project then you will get the error "Virtual Path
maps to another application, which is not allowed."

So what you must do is create a virtual directory for the sub project under
the main project but do not make it an application. This is what I tried
first but I was getting an error saying that the namespace of the sub
project was not found. To resolve this you must add the sub project as a
reference to the main project. Once I did this it all worked well.

Just though I would share this incase anyone else had the same problem.



> Thanks but I need a user control since 90% of the functionality is just
> plain HTML. I don't want to write code just to print out all the tags.
It
> would also be hard to modify the HTML and format it later.
>
> I found this article on how to do it but that is what I was doing and it
> yields the same error:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324785
>
> Bill
>
> "Natty Gur" <> wrote in message
> news:%23aJ$...
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can share custom server controls between appliccations.
> > http://www.15seconds.com/issue/040421.htm
> >
> > Natty Gur[MVP]
> >
> > blog : http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur
> > Mobile: +972-(0)58-888377
> >
> >
> > *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
> > Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
>
>

Bill