ASP.NET MVC 3 plug-in architecture using Griffin.MvcContrib

Introduction

Griffin.MvcContrib is a contribution project for ASP.NET MVC3 which contains different features like extendable HTML Helpers (you can modify the HTML that the existing helpers generate), easy localization support and a quite fresh support for plugin development. The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step instruction on how you can develop plugins using Griffin.MvcContrib.

Using the code

The plugin support are based on the Area support which MVC3 got. If you haven't used areas before, I suggest that you start by reading the following article.

Most basic approach.

This first sample is not really a plugin system but only showing how you can move your code to class libraries. The example will only contain one class library to avoid confusion. Start by creating a new ASP.NET MVC3 project (of any kind) and a class library project. For convenience we would like to have support for Razor and all MVC3 wizards in our class library. It helps us add some basic files which are required to get everything working. To get that support we need to modify the project file for the class library. Here is how:

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