Jason Whitehorn

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

great. thanks for the effort.

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

The zip file should be in the \My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Web Developer folder

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Justin,

I appreciate the kind words. I'm glad the template was useful for you.

You are correct, the template path listed in the post was incorrect. I have updated the post with the path you specific.

Thanks again,
Jason Whitehorn

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Hey, thanks! I was going to do this last night, but then was too tired ... now I don't have to.

Cheers,
Travis

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

HI, Thx for the post with the MVC template.
I copied the MVC Template, Connected to a <myservername>\SQLEXPRESS server. Then I copied the Contoller, Views and Models directoties into the Solotion Explorer of MVC website. So far so good.
Then I tried a built, but encountered a problem with the includes because of the application name MVCapplication5 that is in example code from ScottGu.
In the WebDeveloper you get a website, not an application... There must be an easy solution. Can you help me?

Gr. Hans

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Hans,

You are correct, the examples that Scott Guthrie (ScottGu) has been posting are using web applications (not web sites), and thusly will not work in Visual Web Developer Express without modification.

The template I have provided here works with VWD Express by placing the models and controllers in the App_Code directory. Worth noting, is that the views must NOT be placed in the App_Code directory, they need to reside outside of it so that they are compiled in the same fashion as normal ASPX resources.

So, when you were porting Scott's examples to a web site, from a web application, if you had placed either of those items in the wrong location the compiler would not have been able to correctly assembly your site.

Also worth looking at is the web.config and the global.asax. Both of those files have special items for the sake of MVC. However, the global.asax and web.config's from Scott's web application should work without modification in a web site.

I hope this helped explain some of the key differences in how an MVC site is constructed for a web site versus a web application.

Thanks,
Jason Whitehorn

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Hi Jason,

I still get 4 error message on
Error 1 Could not load type 'Views.Layouts.Site'. C:\Documents and Settings\hansm\Mijn documenten\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ASP.NET MVC Web Site1\Views\Shared\Site.Master 1
Error 2 Could not load type 'Views.Home.Index'. C:\Documents and Settings\hansm\Mijn documenten\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ASP.NET MVC Web Site1\Views\Home\Index.aspx 1
Error 3 Could not load type 'Views.Layouts.Site'. C:\Documents and Settings\hansm\Mijn documenten\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ASP.NET MVC Web Site1\Views\Shared\Site.Master 1
Error 4 Could not load type 'Views.Home.About'. C:\Documents and Settings\hansm\Mijn documenten\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\ASP.NET MVC Web Site1\Views\Home\About.aspx 1

I can explain Error 1 and 3, because the Layout are missing completely in the code from Scott
I cannot explain Errors 2 and 4. In de Index.ASPX files I have:
Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Index.aspx.cs" Inherits="Views.Home.Index" %>

In the codebehind
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace Views.Home
{
public partial class Index : ViewPage
{
}
}
Regards, Hans

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the project template! It has saved a lot of time for me to get up and running with MVC framework.

Regards,
Abhishek

# re: Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Thanx a lot from me too!

That's been useful.