What is the best way to share MasterPages across projects

Question

Suppose you have two seperate ASP.NET Web Application projects that both need to use a common MasterPage.

What\'s the best way to share the MasterPage across project

Answer 1

Supposing you can create a common repository for all your projects (a common folder in your source control tree, for example), you could add the master pages as links by using relative paths.

However, IIRC, Visual Studio makes local copies of files added from external paths. You might have to text-edit the solution/project file to add the linked files.

This, of course, is assuming you use "Web Application" format. Older VS "Web Sites" do not have project files and rely on having all files within the site folder.