'Sub' asp.net website

[Alan Moseley]

Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right general direction.

Fed up of reinventing the wheel, I have written an asp.net website which
allows my end-users to add/edit/delete their own
pages/departments/products/logins etc. etc. ie more-or-less a content
management system. However I now have a customer who wants to do all of the
above plus something that will only ever be specific to them. I don't want
to take a copy of my website code and then add the bespoke to it and
recompile etc. I would rather that I could put a compiled copy of my
application into a new website, then write some separate code for the bespoke
bit. This way I can update the core system once and it would update both.

Firstly is this possible? And secondly, if it is possible where might I find
some documentation or pointers?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bob Barrows]

Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right general direction.

Fed up of reinventing the wheel, I have written an asp.net website

There was no way for you to know it (except maybe by browsing through
some of the previous questions before posting yours - always a
recommended practice), but this is a classic (COM-based) asp newsgroup.
ASP.Net is a different technology from classic ASP. While you may be
lucky enough to find a dotnet-savvy person here who can answer your
question, you can eliminate the luck factor by posting your question to
a newsgroup where the dotnet-savvy people hang out. I suggest

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.

There are also forums at www.asp.net where you can find a lot of people
to help you.

which allows my end-users to add/edit/delete their own
pages/departments/products/logins etc. etc. ie more-or-less a content
management system. However I now have a customer who wants to do all
of the above plus something that will only ever be specific to them.
I don't want to take a copy of my website code and then add the
bespoke to it and recompile etc. I would rather that I could put a
compiled copy of my application into a new website, then write some
separate code for the bespoke bit. This way I can update the core
system once and it would update both.

Firstly is this possible? And secondly, if it is possible where might
I find some documentation or pointers?

It sounds possible. The only drawback I see is the need to replace the
compiled version every time you edit its source. You might consider
encapsulating the duplicated functionality in a class library.

 

[Alan Moseley]

I do apologise. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.