sharing masterpage across two projects

[Guest]

Hello,
this is an asp.net 2.0 question.

I have a project that holds a master page. I want to use the same
masterpage in another web project. It seems like this is not possible.
Anybody know how to work around this?
thx in advance!

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Copy it to the new project.

 

[Guest]

thx for the quick response...it would be nice not to copy to another project
since this would mean maintaining two copies...any other way?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Not unless you use osmosis... ;-)
Applications can't talk to each other.

Think of it as *one* instance per application.

 

[Scott Allen]

Some people are using virtual directory tricks to share a master page
across two apps, but I feel this is brittle.

As Juan said, another approach is to copy the file to the new project.

A good source control tool will allow you to "share" the file between
projects such that an update to the file with update in both projects.