I've got an MVC app that needs to include a few (not many, but important ones) legacy WebForms pages.  I have put these in a WebForms folder in the root of the app to keep them separate.  The use a common custom control, but I am having problems accessing this - it needs to be accessed in both the web page and the code behind of the webform.  If I create an App_Code/WebFormsControls in the app root, put the file in there and set its NameSpace to "WebFormsControls" I can

<%@ Register TagPrefix="cus" Namespace="WebFormsControls" Src%>

ok, but I can't then access the "WebFormsControls" namespace from the code-behind.  If I move that folder anywhere else, I can access the NameSpace from the code-behind but the Register doesn't find it.  What am I doing wrong (and please don't say "using WebForms in an MVC app")?

Thanks

MH

Have you looked at

Q: How do I mix Web Forms and MVC?
A: see http://www.packtpub.com/article/mixing-asp.net-webforms-and-asp.net-mvc and http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PlugInHybridsASPNETWebFormsAndASPMVCAndASPNETDynamicDataSideBySide.aspx
Mixing ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC http://media.wiley.com/assets/1539/15/professionalaspnet35mvc_chapter13.pdf
Free Sample Chapter — Chapter 13: Best of Both Worlds: Web Forms and MVC Together

From the MVC FAQ

The routing is all fine, it's accessing the custom code that's the issue.  I have had a look through the PDF quickly but I can't see anything in there either, but I'll have a bit more of a look later this week.

Hi,

If you mixed webform and mvc, the following link mentioned by rick would be very helpful for us.

http://www.packtpub.com/article/mixing-asp.net-webforms-and-asp.net-mvc

That doesn't seem to address namespacing.  My strange problem is that I have 2 classes in the same file and namespace (WebFormsControls).  If the file is in a particular location (I made a /App_Code/WebFormsControls directory) in the project, a webform can see the first class but its code-behind can't see the 2nd, and if I move the file to a different location (/WebForms/CustomClasses) within the project the webform can't see the first class but the code-behind can now see the 2nd class.  Can anyone explain this?