What to keep in mind when developing a multi-tenant asp.net MVC application?

Question

Good afternoon - I have a pretty general question today - I\'ve been tasked with creating a web application to manage some basic information on customers. It\'s a very simpl

Answer 1

I implemented a complete MVC multi-tennant app. Here are some links I found handy and some sample apps:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479086.aspx

http://codeofrob.com/archive/2010/02/14/multi-tenancy-in-asp.net-mvc-controller-actions-part-i.aspx

http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/10925_3801931_2/Introduction-to-Multi-Tenant-Architecture.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479086.aspx#mlttntda_cc

http://lukesampson.com/post/303245177/subdomains-for-a-single-application-with-asp-net-mvc

http://code.google.com/p/multimvc/

http://www.paulstovell.com/widgets

http://www.agileatwork.com/bolt-on-multi-tenancy-in-asp-net-mvc-with-unity-and-nhibernate/

http://ayende.com/blog/3530/multi-tenancy-approaches-and-applicability

http://weblogs.asp.net/zowens/archive/tags/Multi-tenancy/default.aspx

http://cloudsamurai.codeplex.com/

http://cloudninja.codeplex.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh534484.aspx

http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/05/20/ASPNET-MVC-Domain-Routing.aspx

http://blog.tonywilliams.me.uk/asp-net-mvc-2-routing-subdomains-to-areas

Even starting from scratch, you are in for a world of hurt. The MVC framework does very little to help you address the issues.