USERCONTROLS: "Control is not declared" ????
Ok, I need a little help here...
I am trying to programmatically expose two properties of a custom (example) control using Visual Studio.net (VS.Net) on Win XP.
Here's what I am doing:
1.) In VS.Ne, I create a new "web user control"
2.) on the control I add the following code:
=======[ uc_Control.ascx ]=======
<%@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="uc_Control.asc
<p><font color="<%=color%>"><%=Text
=======[ end ]=======
3.) In the code behind FOR THE UER CONTROL I added the following:
=======[ uc_Control.ascx.vb ]=======
Public Class uc_Control
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.Debugg
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclara
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
End Sub
Public color As String '<!-- I ADDED THIS
Public text As String '<!-- I ADDED THIS
End Class
=======[ end ]=======
4.) I then created a "container" .aspx page to test the control. On the .aspx page I added two controls:
a. On the first control [ Uc_Control1 ] is set both the COLOR and TEXT properties.
b. For the second control, i sought to SET THE PROPERTIES PROGRAMMATICALLY (see #5)
...and that's where all @%*!! broke loose
=======[ uc_Container.aspx ]=======
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="uc_Container.a
<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="uc_Control" Src="uc_Control.ascx" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>uc_Container</title
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1">
<meta name=vs_defaultClientScrip
<meta name=vs_targetSchema content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</HEAD>
<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<uc1:uc_Control id=Uc_Control1 TEXT="THIS IS A TEST" color="green" runat="server"></uc1:uc_Co
<uc1:uc_Control id=Uc_Control2 runat="server"></uc1:uc_Co
</form>
</body>
</HTML>
=======[ end ]=======
5.) I then opened the .aspx code behind file and entered the code to set properties for [ Uc_Control2 ] , but I keep gettintg the (oh so familiar) "blue-squigglies" which is telling me ....
"NAME 'Uc_Control2' is not declared"
Worse yet, it does'nt seem to matter if it's in the page_load or out (i'm not sure where it goes)
=======[ uc_Container.aspx.vb ]=======
Public Class uc_Container
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.Debugg
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclara
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
Uc_Control2.text = "test" '<!-- THIS IS WHERE I ATTEMPT TO SET THE [TEXT] PROPERTY
End Sub
End Class
=======[ end
Oh enlightened ones....little help? It's killin me ;->
I am trying to programmatically expose two properties of a custom (example) control using Visual Studio.net (VS.Net) on Win XP.
Here's what I am doing:
1.) In VS.Ne, I create a new "web user control"
2.) on the control I add the following code:
=======[ uc_Control.ascx ]=======
<%@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="uc_Control.asc
<p><font color="<%=color%>"><%=Text
=======[ end ]=======
3.) In the code behind FOR THE UER CONTROL I added the following:
=======[ uc_Control.ascx.vb ]=======
Public Class uc_Control
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.Debugg
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclara
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
End Sub
Public color As String '<!-- I ADDED THIS
Public text As String '<!-- I ADDED THIS
End Class
=======[ end ]=======
4.) I then created a "container" .aspx page to test the control. On the .aspx page I added two controls:
a. On the first control [ Uc_Control1 ] is set both the COLOR and TEXT properties.
b. For the second control, i sought to SET THE PROPERTIES PROGRAMMATICALLY (see #5)
...and that's where all @%*!! broke loose
=======[ uc_Container.aspx ]=======
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="uc_Container.a
<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="uc_Control" Src="uc_Control.ascx" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>uc_Container</title
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1">
<meta name=vs_defaultClientScrip
<meta name=vs_targetSchema content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</HEAD>
<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<uc1:uc_Control id=Uc_Control1 TEXT="THIS IS A TEST" color="green" runat="server"></uc1:uc_Co
<uc1:uc_Control id=Uc_Control2 runat="server"></uc1:uc_Co
</form>
</body>
</HTML>
=======[ end ]=======
5.) I then opened the .aspx code behind file and entered the code to set properties for [ Uc_Control2 ] , but I keep gettintg the (oh so familiar) "blue-squigglies" which is telling me ....
"NAME 'Uc_Control2' is not declared"
Worse yet, it does'nt seem to matter if it's in the page_load or out (i'm not sure where it goes)
=======[ uc_Container.aspx.vb ]=======
Public Class uc_Container
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
<System.Diagnostics.Debugg
End Sub
'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
'Do not delete or move it.
Private designerPlaceholderDeclara
Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
Uc_Control2.text = "test" '<!-- THIS IS WHERE I ATTEMPT TO SET THE [TEXT] PROPERTY
End Sub
End Class
=======[ end
Oh enlightened ones....little help? It's killin me ;->
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(see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q316370&GSSNB=1 )
thus I added:
Protected WithEvents Uc_Control1 As uc_Control
Protected WithEvents Uc_Control2 As Uc_Control
which modifies my question:
1. Does this mean that i must add individual declarations for EVERY control I add to the page?
2. is this the ONLY declaration i must include?
3. why the heck has MS not PATCHED this bug!
thanks!