I upgraded to Visual Studio 2015 from our MSDN subscription because I was pretty excited to read about Shared Projects... No more managing 21382 nuget packages in our dependencies when all we want to do is reuse code.
So I built a test shared project with some code in it. Then I add a new empty web application on .Net 4.6 to the project. Now I expected to go to references and see a "Shared Projects" tab on the references window, but I do not see one.
Now I can add a class library to the same solution and I see the tab and can add the shared reference. However I cannot add the shared project to my web application.
I was rather hoping I could use this concept to share views with multiple MVC projects.
Am I missing something here, or are shared projects not compatible with Web Projects?
The only way I see around this is to have two projects for every web application I build. 1 for the code, and 1 for the content.
For example
XYZ.SomeWebSite.Code (Class Library Project Type) -> references Shared Project
XYZ.SomeWebSite (Web Project Type)
However going this route, I would not be able to push views, text files, css files, javascript files, etc into the web application.