I'm new to ASP.NET and have been reading about using the include directive in the Global.asax

In the Help under server-side include directives it says that the format s

When I try to do this I get a compile error. I want to try and add a footer to every page on my site using the include. Where/how do I do this

As far as I know ASP.NET does not use Includes (like ASP). Instead it uses something called User Controls. These are created within separate files (with a .ascx extension) and then imported into the .aspx file. User Controls cannot contain a form tag. They must be imported within the form tags in the .aspx page. This makes the code work as though it was always within the .aspx page.
Before importing the .ascx file into your .aspx page you need to register a tag that you will use to do the importing with:
The above code will register the usercontrol tag for your use. This code would go at the top of your .aspx page along with any necessary namespace imports.

To include the .ascx code at a particular position in your .aspx page you now need to use the tag you just registered.

By specifying an id for the control you allow yourself the ability to call any subprocedures or functions within the user control. (By first referencing the id e.g. footer1.mySub() ).

Hope that helps


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:) James Sellwood :)
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can the usercontrol files have codebehind files themselves ? i tried to include one and got an error about only having one @page declaration allowed...

Yes, user controls can have code-behind files. You need to declare the user control class like so:

  Public Class MyUserControlClass : Inherits UserControl

as opposed to declaring the class as "Inherits Page".

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