How to want to move my DAL to separate project in my MVC3 solution? - asp.net-mvc-3

Question

I have MVC 3 application that uses a DAL (ADO.NET) that communicates to a set of tsql stored procedures? I want to add a new MVC project to my current solution. I need to have DAL in a separate project that the 2 MVC project ("Monitor" and "Audit") can share.
Here's the current DAL (which sits in a folder of the "Monitor" MVC project) code below. My issue is I have signature like IEnumerable located in the Monitor.Models and IEnumerable located in the Audit.Models. Do I need to make the DAL generic to avoid needing to make references to the models in the DAL?
Ex:
**//Is this bad practice?**
using Monitor.Models;
using Adit.Models;
namespace Monitor.DAL
{
public class QuestionDAL
{
static ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(QuestionDAL));
private string _connectionString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["NexGenContext"].ToString();
public IEnumerable<AgencyTerm> SearchAgencies(string ori, string name)
{
log.Debug("Executing: SearchAgencies(string ori, string name)");
List<AgencyTerm> agencies = new List<AgencyTerm>();
using (var conn = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
{
var com = new SqlCommand();
com.Connection = conn;
com.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
string term = "Ori";
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ori))
{
term = "Ori";
com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter
{
ParameterName = "#ORI",
Value = ori
});
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
{
term = "legal_name";
com.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter
{
ParameterName = "#Name",
Value = name
});
}
com.CommandText = "Review_Get_Agency_List";
var adapt = new SqlDataAdapter();
adapt.SelectCommand = com;
var dataset = new DataSet();
adapt.Fill(dataset);
agencies = (from c in dataset.Tables[0].AsEnumerable()
select new AgencyTerm()
{
label = c[term].ToString(),
id = c["Agency_Id"].ToString()
}).ToList<AgencyTerm>();
return agencies;
}
}
public IEnumerable<User> GetUsers()
{
log.Debug("Executing: GetUsers()");
List<User> users = new List<User>();
using (var conn = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
{
var com = new SqlCommand();
com.Connection = conn;
com.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
com.CommandText = "Review_Get_Users";
var adapt = new SqlDataAdapter();
adapt.SelectCommand = com;
var dataset = new DataSet();
adapt.Fill(dataset);
users = (from c in dataset.Tables[0].AsEnumerable()
select new User()
{
User_ID = Convert.ToInt32(c["User_ID"]),
Department = c["Department"].ToString(),
Enabled = Convert.ToBoolean(c["Enabled"]),
Email = c["Email"].ToString(),
User_First_Name = c["User_First_Name"].ToString(),
User_Last_Name = c["User_Last_Name"].ToString(),
Location = c["Location"].ToString(),
User_Name = c["User_Name"].ToString()
}).ToList<User>();
return users;
}
}

Answer 1

You have two possibilities:
Either move your model into a separate library as well and then reference it from your MVC project and your DAL
Make your DAL completely generic and just push the values inside. I don't see an easy way here though since you have a lot of information in your DAL
I would go with the first option. Just extract your models to a different project and then reuse that library in both DAL and MVC-projects