Access content from another project in the same Solution

Question

Here’s the thing: I have a Solution with two Projects, one Administrative and one Website, both using C# and MVC4.

In the first project I save images and files in a folder Documents, and when accessing the Website would like to access the contents of this folder. I understand that the Solution must have a virtual directory and that I must configure it when hosting my application and the site, but I do not know how to simulate it while they are not yet hosted.

I’ve even used @Url.Content("~/Documents/"+cliente.Imagem) but without success. I believe I am not understanding the whole scenario and/or how I should prepare it

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The correct approach would be to create, on the administrative site, a suitable interface to serve the images.

To do this, create a Controller called ImagensController. Inside it implement the following Action:

public FileResult Imagem(int id)
{
    if (id != null)
    {
        var imagem = db.Imagens.FirstOrDefault(x => x.ImagemId == id);
        if (imagem != null)
        {
            var arquivoDeImagem = Server.MapPath("~/Content/images/galeria/" + imagem.imagem);
            return File(arquivoDeImagem, "image/jpeg");
        }
    }

    return null;
}

Use:

<img src="http://siteadministrativo/Imagens/Imagem/5" alt="@item.nome" />

Note that this method uses an image registration inside its administrative module, because we selected the image registration in a data context (db).

Still, if you want to make the configuration very dynamic, you can use a configurable URL in your Web.config:

<configuration>
  ...
  <appSettings>
    ...
    <add key="BaseURL" value="http://localhost:15829/" />
    ...
  </appSettings>
  ...
</configuration>

To access the value on View, you can implement a Helper:

public static class ConfigurationHelper
{
    public static String BaseUrl()
    {
        var baseUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["BaseURL"];
        return baseUrl;
    }
}

There it stands:

<img src="@(ConfigurationHelper.BaseUrl() + "/Imagens/Imagem/5")" alt="@item.nome" />

Finally, you can use transformation files and configure the URL exchange at the time of publication:

<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
  <appSettings>
    <add key="BaseURL" value="http://meusite.com.br" xdt:Transform="SetAttributes" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" />
  </appSettings>
  <system.web>
    <compilation xdt:Transform="RemoveAttributes(debug)" />
  </system.web>
</configuration>

Answer 2

You will have to climb both projects at the same time, IE, both have to be "Online". Your image reference should be the full url example: h t t p: //localhost:8455/Content/imagen01.jpg

to access:

Answer 3

Gentlemen, thank you very much for your help, I have found the solution and I believe I can help many. What I did was run the administrative first, so it "simulated a server like http://localhost:55191/..... Then I inserted the full path of the image, included the localhost + port and it worked, look at the example: @Url.Content("http://localhost:55191/Content/"+item. Image) I accessed the above content through the following URL: http://localhost:51871/Home/Index Thanks again for the force!!!