Images folder in separate applications - asp.net

Question

I have a web application with an admin panel. The admin panel is a webform project and I also have an MVC project to list products inserted in admin panel. But when I upload images to ProductImgs folder in webform project, how can I get them from MVC project? Or can I save them to the MVC project folder?

Answer 1

Ok so sounds like you are trying to share images between two web applications? EDIT Also you are trying to do this using Cassini (the inbuilt dev web server).
The easiest way to do this is to move your development environment to using IIS and then create a virtual directory within your mvc project in IIS that points to the images folder in your other site (on your file system). NB Moving to IIS will also have the added benefits of making your solution be more in line with how it will be deployed which IMHO is a great benefit.
Say you call this virtual directory 'images' and it has two images (image1.jpg and image2.jpg).
You can then reference these images from your mvc site by using
<img src="/images/image1.jpg" />
Here is a link on how to create Virtual Directories.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172138

Answer 2

Now i found the solution: here is the root web.config to solve this issue
<location inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Helpers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>
<pages>
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Helpers" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="System.Web.WebPages"/>
<add namespace="EkosWeb.Helpers"/>
</namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web>
</location>
I need to add inheritInChildApplications="false" to location.