Cross Application masterpages

[Guest]

I have a scenario where I would like to show contentpages from one asp.NET
application in a masterpage from another application. I've tried to do this
by putting one appilcation in a virtual directory below the other one, but
when I try to set the masterpagefile to ../MasterPage.master I get an error
message saying something about the master being outside the application
directory. Is there any way I could get around this, or is there any other
way I could use a masterpage from another application?

 

[Mr Newbie]

Use an IFrame ? and set the source to your remote page ?

 

[Brock Allen]

MasterPages are compiled just like ASPX pages and ASCX controls, thus they
need to reside under the application directory. You can do the virtual directory
trick as you said you've been doing.

 

[Guest]

Yeah that does the trick, don't know why I didn't think of it.
Thanks
//Jonas