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Hi

i am trying to add a control to my ASP.NET app.  I have added it in the usual way through the tool box.  i can paste the control on to a form and the control wotrks ok.  

The problem when I am writing my code ito access properties etc it get errors saying that it is not a member of the form. I knew I was accessing the right name of the control so I tried the page and the code worked !!

I must be missing a refernece from somewhere that is stopping visual studio from accessing the control properly but not sure where!
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Where are you trying to access the properties of that control? Client side or server side?

If you can post some code to show how you are declaring the c ontrol and how you are accesing the properties, that would be great.
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I am tring to access the controls properties in the usual way   Contol.property = .  Visual studio does not seem to see the control so this does not bring up intilisence, but the web page works ok in the browser.


This works

HTML
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<%@ Register Assembly="FreeTextBox" Namespace="FreeTextBoxControls" TagPrefix="FTB" %>

<FTB:FreeTextBox id="FreeTextBox1" runat="server" ToolbarLayout="StylesMenu,|Bold,Italic,Underline,RemoveFormat|JustifyLeft,JustifyRight,JustifyCenter,JustifyFull;BulletedList,NumberedList,Indent,Outdent;CreateLink,Unlink,InsertImage,InsertRule|Cut,Copy,Paste;Undo,Redo,Print" AutoGenerateToolbarsFromString="True" BreakMode="LineBreak" ButtonImagesLocation="InternalResource" DisableIEBackButton="True" HtmlModeCss="volunteer.css" HtmlModeCssClass="volunteer.css" ToolbarBackgroundImage="True" UpdateToolbar="False">
</FTB:FreeTextBox>


This shows an error in VS but does work
VB CODE
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Freetextbox1.text = "Some Text"



Declare variable FreeTextBox1 in your code behind file.
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...so you're missing something like:

    Protected WithEvents FreeTextBox1 As FreeTextBoxControls.FreeTextBox

also, you do have the dll added as a reference right?
and you did "import" it to the top of the codebehind too right?...