Open a web Page in a Referenced dll

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Rich

Hi,

I have a project written in asp.net which has a few web
pages. The project has been compiled into a dll and now I
am referencing that dll in another project. How can I get
one of the web pages in the dll to be displayed from web
pages in the second project?

Cheers,
Rich
 
This is a rather unorthodox suggestion. It would be better if you have a
model-view-controller, if you want to access code in this manner. If you are
trying to access methods of the page, you are best to move them to other
classes. If you are sincerely trying to display the page, my first attempt
would be to inherit from the page in question in the other application. This
is more likely to be sucessful in the 2.0 Framework, as all elements compile
via partial classes. I am not sure you can easily get the tags across in 1.1.
Working with the code behind in a compiled application is not a problem,
however.

It sounds like you have some business logic embedded in your ASP.NET
application(s). If so, re-architecture is in order.


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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Hi Gregory,

thanks for the response.

I was just trying to see how easy it would be to redirect
a web app to a web page which is held as a class in a
referenced Dll.
Its easy to interact with other classes in the dll and
methods on the web page I want to render... but even
though I can create an instance of the web page class I
cant seem to find a way of getting it displayed.
A normal Response.redirect() will take a string parameter
of the web page to display..... in that web site. My
thought (which might be incorrect would be that if the
web page is a compiled calss in the dll it would be
possible) - how can I interact with it to render it as
normal?

Cheers,
Rich
 
re:
a web page which is held
as a class in a referenced Dll
if the web page is a compiled class in the dll...
Click to expand...

The .aspx (web) pages are not compiled
into dll's which you can reference.

The only compilation which occurs with .aspx (web) pages
is JIT-compilation, and the resulting assemblies ( dll's )
are placed in your "Temporary ASP.NET Files" directory
under drive:\windowsdirectory\Microsoft.Net\vx.x.xxxx\
and you cannot reference them from an .aspx page.

I you have previously started (visited) the web page you
want to "reference", it will have already been JIT-compiled,
and will be available from memory, unless different data or
parameters are requested, in which case the page will be
JIT-recompiled again.

In ASP.NET 2.0 there's a nifty new feature which allows full
pre-compilation of all of an Application's files, eliminating that
way the delay in response due to on-the-fly compilation.

In ASP.NET 1.1, I experimented with a batch file which
called all the basic pagesin a website, so that the pages
would be jit-complied, and users didn't have to wait for
the initial compilation.

It worked quite well, and might do the job for you.



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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OK.......interesting.

Currently using ASP.Net 1.1 - so it'll have to be
the 'batch file' technique you mentioned -
how did you implement that?
I would only need to call the one web page I was hoping
to get displayed.

Cheers,
Richard
 
It's as easy as :

startup.bat :
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start Iexplore "http://yourserver.com/directory/your.aspx"
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Place more lines like the first one for additional pages.
That works fine if there's not too many pages to open.

An IE window will be opened for each page.



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
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