Darrell

May 31, 2006 at 11:15 AM

Hi

I have two web sites defined in windows 2003 IIS. The first contains the App_Code, App_Data, etc folders for .NET 2.0 framework. I have put some code into the App_Code folder, which I don't really want to generate a dll for. I now want to re-use this code in the second web server, so I thought, logically, that I could simply create a virtual directory and point it to the physical folder that is in the first website.

However, I now get the following error

The path '/App_Code/' maps to a directory outside this application, which is not supported

Has anyone got any idea how I can get around this without having to create a dll from the source code, as this is a right royal pain in the behind

Thanks

Darrell
hackman_3vilGuy hackman_3vilGuy

May 31, 2006 at 11:52 AM

Why can't you just copy the source file to a new App_Code directory on the 2^nd virtual server?

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Darrell

May 31, 2006 at 12:23 PM

The only problem with this is it means I have duplicated code all over the place. Now with two web sites this isn't that much of an issue, however, the client I am working for has over 40 different web sites, all of which could benefit from re-using the code that I have created in this method.

Any other ideas

Thanks

D
hackman_3vilGuy hackman_3vilGuy
May 31, 2006 at 1:06 PM
I don't think it can be done without a DLL.

In the web.config file there is a section codeSubDirectories:
```
<configuration>
   <system.web>
      <compilation>
        <codeSubDirectories>
          <add directoryName="/mysite/code/mySubDir"/>
        </codeSubDirectories>
       </compilation>
   </system.web>
</configuration>
```
However, the paths have to be relative to the App_Code file of the application.
It shouldn't take you too long to make a DLL although you still have multiple copies of the DLL in App_Bin directories unless you put it in the GAC? or whatever you have to do I think.

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rprimrose

May 31, 2006 at 4:13 PM

Perhaps enabling parent paths on the website will work. What you want to do is really what dlls are for. Keep you code in one place and deploy multiple dlls.

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