I have a Utilities.vb page that contains a number of classes (not compiled) being referenced by a number of (in-line coded) aspx pages.

Since I'm not too familiar with either ASP or ASP.NET, I was wondering if the statement used extensively in ASP classic:
Code:
would still apply in .NET in this context.

This application was not created using a Visual Studio Project, and the above referenced Include statement doesn't work as the server keeps returning:

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

BC30002: Type 'Utilities.DPAPI' is not defined.

etc. etc.........

You cannot use include files as far as I know in ASP.Net. You can convert it to a vb class file and use that in your aspx pages.

As Jim has pointed out, non-precompiled ASP.NET can not take advantage of supporting classes. You'll need to compile at least those support/utility classes into an assembly that is accessible by the pages.

-Peter

Jim, Peter,

Thank you for the replies. You were right, and I found at least two ways of solving this issue:

+ I could use the script tag, and specify the source file in the src attribute:
+ I could use the Assembly directive in the web page to point to the code file:
Thanks again,

b-d