Good afternoon,

I created a custom control, compiled it into a DLL, and added it to the BIN directory. I placed an instance of the control in a webForm and am trying to programatically change its properties via the Page_Load subroutine in a code-behind file. Can someone please tell me the proper procedure for declaring the new custom control in the code-behind file?

I will be happy to provide all of the code (DLL, ASPX, and ASPX.VB) to anyone who is able to assist.

Thank you in advance.

I am getting the following error:
Parser Error Message: The base class includes the field 'ctrlShowColor', but its type (learn.myControls.ShowColor) is not compatible with the type of control (myControls.ShowColor).


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It sounds like the problem with this is a lack of a root namespace. If the DLL is being compiled on the command line, you need to specify a root namespace.

/rootnamespace:<string>

You probably want this: /rootnamespace:learn

This way, "myControls" will live underneath the "learn" namespace and the control types will match up correctly.

Peter
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Peter thank you for the response. Would I use this "flag" as part of the command line when compiling? For instance

vbc /t:library /r:system.dll,system.web.dll TestControl.vb

would now become

vbc /namespace:something /t:library /r:system.dll....

Thank you again for your time and assistance.


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Yes. That way any class/namespace that lives in the code you are compiling to that assembly will live under the namespace you specify.

Compile with root namespace "learn". For code that looks like this:

Namespace myControls
   Public Class ShowColor
      ...
   End Class
End Namespace

The full name of the ShowColor class will be "learn.myControls.ShowColor".