Question

Master Page and content page Title problem VS2005

Asked by: MHenry

Ok for the life of me I can't figure this out.

I'm using Master Pages. According to MS, (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/masterpages.asp Item#10) setting the title on the content page should be as easy as adding Title="home" to the Page declaration of the content page. Every time I do that, I get a 404 error.

This code works fine:
<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/master07.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="event_brief.aspx.vb" Inherits="event_brief"  %>

And when I do this, I get the 404:
<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/master07.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="event_brief.aspx.vb" Inherits="event_brief" Title="home" %>

Anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
MH

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Answers

 

by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:01:08ID: 18174504

Now that is strange!!!   I haven't gotten that error before, but I do the Title attribute all the time without any problems.  It must be something with your configuration.

Bob

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:09:03ID: 18174576

try lower case 't', like this: title="home"

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:10:23ID: 18174585

Yeah, already tried the lowercase t as well.

If it's my configuration, what the heck could it be??

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:11:00ID: 18174591

also, make sure there is only one space before title in <%@ Page .... %>

 

by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:16:46ID: 18174626

1) Web Site model or Web Application model?

2) Did you migrate this application from 2003?

Bob

 

by: raterusPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:29:17ID: 18174721

Do you have runat="server" in the <head> tag in the MasterPage?

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:35:52ID: 18174759

Bob,

Not sure on the Web Site model. I think so.

I choose Web Form from the templates. It says "A form for Web Applications" in that dialog box.

No, not migrated from 2003.


TornadoV,

Yeah, only one space.



 

by: SSiricaPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:36:04ID: 18174761

I know this is reaching a bit, but sometimes when I get one of these weird errors I make some kind of change to the web.config file.  It forces the ASP.Net app to recompile/rebuild and the weird error goes away 99.9% of the time.

 

by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:37:45ID: 18174770

When you first created the web site, did you choose New Web Site from the File menu?

Bob

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:41:22ID: 18174794

Just in case, here's the code from the Master Page:

<%@ Master Language="VB" CodeFile="master07.master.vb" Inherits="master07" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<link href="Style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<title>Master Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<!--[if lt IE 7.]>
<script defer type="text/javascript" src="pngfix.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5]>
<style>#navlist a {float: left; clear: both; width: 100%;}</style>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style>
#navlist a {height: 1%;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>

 

by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:44:33ID: 18174823

Is that all of it, since it is missing the <body> element?

Bob

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:46:51ID: 18174833

Can you also post code from your content page?

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:50:24ID: 18174866

Here's the error code when I run it in VS2005:

Compiler Error Message: BC30311: Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox'.

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2006-12-20 at 09:56:17ID: 18174920

It has to be

string myString = System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox.Text whenever you try to assign text value of a textbox to a string, but I'm not sure how it relates to this particular question.

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:02:41ID: 18174974

That's the error I get when I use the debug in VS. The browser launches and I get that error in the browser. When I remove the Title, that error goes away and the page debugs fine.

If it was just that, it would be ok but when I upload it to the server, I get the 404 there.

 

by: SSiricaPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:04:27ID: 18174979

How about adding the title in the code behind.  Maybe in the Master page load.

 

by: SSiricaPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:06:29ID: 18174992

I just tried Page.Title = "put title here" in the master page_load and it worked for me.

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:23:51ID: 18175122

SSirica,

There will be different titles so I want it to inherit from the content page. It works fine if I use the Master title, I can just put that in the regular code. It's when I use the title in the Content Page that I get the error.


I'm starting to think it's a bug in my program. May have to reload the software.

I haven't uploaded the code because it's huge. I don't think that's where the error is. Like I said, if I take out the Title attribute, the page loads and runs fine.



 

by: sammy1971Posted on 2006-12-20 at 10:24:59ID: 18175130

MHenry,
Just like TornadoV said this Error has nothing to do with the masterpage title property. this is cause by a statement like this
Dim str as String
str=Me.mytextbox and usually fixed by str=Me.mytextbox.Text

there has to be some other code causing the master Page title error. Post the body of the masterpage Markup and any code behind if you can not see the cause of the error

 

by: SSiricaPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:29:07ID: 18175169

It easily solved.  Add a public property to the master page like this:
    Public Property Master_Title() As String
        Get
            Return Page.Title
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            Page.Title = value
        End Set
    End Property

put the folowing in the content pages:
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/master07.master" %>

Now in your code behind the folowing will be available:
master.Master_Title = "Title here"

 

by: MHenryPosted on 2006-12-20 at 10:41:12ID: 18175262

Grrrrrr,

Caught by the old I have an input box called Title....

Ok, you guys won this round, but I'll be back! ;)

Thanks for the help all...

Splitting points between tornado and sammy. Sammy gets points because I don't understand things until I'm told for the second time.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

MH

 

by: sammy1971Posted on 2006-12-20 at 15:01:22ID: 18177141

You welcome MH

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