Merging LMC and Content manager

To hand over the LMC to the the testers, I needed to publish the application on a hosting server.  I found one that is free to host for 90 days (3 months).  Eventually, I'll upgrade to a paid service, but this free one will do for now.

One limitation of the free hosting service is that you can only install one application at a time.  The service is intended as an aid for students to learn ASP, so they don't want commercial applications.  So to get around this limitation, I needed to put the content management application in with the main LMC application, so that they shared the same web.config file.  I could then use custom routes to access the content manager.  I also needed a way of specifying different layouts for the LMC and the content manager.   

Here are a couple of links that helped out:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/controllers-and-routing/creating-custom-routes-cs
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5161380/how-do-i-specify-different-layouts-in-the-asp-net-mvc-3-razor-viewstart-file


Once installed, I ran into the old UK vs US dates problem when trying to submit maintenance task data to the controllers.  Found this solution which creates a model binder to handle the date conversion.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9821407/mvc3-en-gb-dates-in-get