Complete MVC beginner. I've got an issue with a new Umbraco 7 site I got setup and running. Midway through development I realized you can not use user controls to post. So I did some research and found some articles detailing how to create an surface controllers and such within Umbraco.
Unfortunately, all of these start with creating a new project within Visual Studio. My project is already created and is more than half-way done. Any way to import an existing Umbraco installation into a new MVC project in VS?
You can easily create a project in visual studio and create the surface controllers you need and then use XCOPY to put the assemblies etc. to the correct folders of your current Umbraco project.
So you have project A that builds to project B - Does that make sense? I think that could be an easy approach that does not need you to change your current VS project...I assume you created a VS project based on user control rather than MVC?
Creating Models, Surface Controllers, etc. on previous installation
Hi,
Complete MVC beginner. I've got an issue with a new Umbraco 7 site I got setup and running. Midway through development I realized you can not use user controls to post. So I did some research and found some articles detailing how to create an surface controllers and such within Umbraco.
Unfortunately, all of these start with creating a new project within Visual Studio. My project is already created and is more than half-way done. Any way to import an existing Umbraco installation into a new MVC project in VS?
Thanks
Hi Justin
You can easily create a project in visual studio and create the surface controllers you need and then use XCOPY to put the assemblies etc. to the correct folders of your current Umbraco project.
So you have project A that builds to project B - Does that make sense? I think that could be an easy approach that does not need you to change your current VS project...I assume you created a VS project based on user control rather than MVC?
Hope this makes sense :)
/Jan
Hello,
If you want some surface controllers examples have a look at the Hybrid Framework. It's a v6 project, but it will work the same for v7.
In v7 it's also possible to use User Controls, but not by default. V7 is by default in MVC mode, but you can change it to webforms. This blog explains how to go from webforms to MVC, but you can also use it to revert. http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2013/7/14/moving-from-webforms-to-mvc.aspx
Jeroen
Thanks Jan & Jeroen!
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