Ideas to improve/enrich a WebForms application by adding ASP.NET MVC elements to it

Question

I'm currently present with the following situation.

We have a huge enterprise application written with WebForms. Refactoring it or completely rewriting it is out of the question. So I'm not talking about migration WebForms -> MVC.

However, I understand one can technically add MVC functionality to coexist with the rest of the project. I was asked to present MVC concepts for a team so that we can consider how it could become (or not) of use to us.

After careful thinking I do not see any ways or reasons to add MVC elements to a WebForms project since it will become a strange breed then.

Maybe there are certain not exactly obvious possibilities to add value to a WebForms project with MVC framework? Has anybody thought about it?

Answer 1

• Sharing a master between MVC and WebForms - dealing with the
• Mixing ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC WebForms Hybrid application
• Combining MVC and WebForms from Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (also available here)

Answer 2

I would also look at this article from Scott Hanselman. He seems to have the mojo on mixing these technologies.

Plug in Hybrids...Mixing ASP.NET and ...