For people who have experience with Portable Areas, I would like to know if there are disadvantages to using them and why you wouldn't use them to break a large MVC application down into componen...

I am trying to using portable views with ASP.NET MVC 3 and razor views as that seems like the best way to create an easy plug-in architecture. So I have my class library setup and I have my view lo...

I love the idea of the Portable Areas in MvcContrib. After reading up on it, and building a couple for practice, I was surprised not to find a plethora of open source projects leveraging this...