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POHow do I process a request for a web page of a pre-compiled web application which is referenced in another web application?
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copied!<p>Our company would like to give a pre-compiled version of our web application to a 3rd party so they can add their own pages and modules to it. In trying to accomplish this, I've so far done the following:</p> <ol> <li>Compiled our main web app as a Web Deployment Project </li> <li>Created a POC web app which references the DLL resulting from step 1 above.</li> </ol> <p>I then added the following static method to our main web app, which should hopefully process requests to its pre-compiled aspx pages:</p> <pre><code>public static bool TryProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { string rawUrl = context.Request.RawUrl; int aspxIdx = rawUrl.IndexOf(".aspx"); if (aspxIdx > 0) { string aspxPagePath = rawUrl.Substring(0, aspxIdx + 5); string aspxPageClassName = aspxPagePath.Substring(1).Replace('/','_').Replace(".aspx",""); Assembly website = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(MCLLogin)); Type pageClass = website.GetType(aspxPageClassName); ConstructorInfo ctor = pageClass.GetConstructor(new Type[] { }); IHttpHandler pageObj = (IHttpHandler)ctor.Invoke(new object[] { }); context.Server.Execute(pageObj, context.Response.Output, false); //alternative: invoking the page's ProcessRequest method - same results //System.Reflection.MethodInfo method = pageClass.GetMethod("ProcessRequest"); //method.Invoke(pageObj, new object[] { context }); return true; } return false; //not handled } </code></pre> <p>I am then calling this method in the <code>ProcessRequest()</code> method of a <code>HttpHandler</code> of the POC web app whenever I want our main web app to handle the request. This code indeed successfully instantiates a page of the correct class and starts to process the request.</p> <p><strong>The problem:</strong> Code in my <code>Page_PreLoad</code> handler throws an exception because <code>Page.Form</code> is <strong>null</strong>. I've also found out the <code>Page.Controls</code> collection is <strong>empty</strong>. </p> <p>What am I doing wrong? Should I go down a different path to achieve this?</p>

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