Hi
i went through the book and created the sample website with no problems. i was impressed by the architecture and decided to go through the book again. But, this time I broke out the bll and dal into separate projects.

everything is working fine except for one item. in the biz project i am getting an error in shoppingcart.cs on this line of code

return (HttpContext.Current.Profile as ProfileCommon).ShoppingCart.Items;

both a result of ProfileCommon. the error suggests that i am missing a reference or a using statement. it cannot find ProfileCommon.

i have the using System.Web.Profile;

in fact this error occurs in newsletters also. anyway actually ProfileCommom is used in the bll.
help

Profiles are an ASP.NET thing. Maybe you just need to put a reference on System.Web.

Eric

Hi Tony. I'm in the process of breaking out the bll and dal into seperate projects as well. What kind of problems did you run into? How did you expose the ConfigSection instance to the dal? When the dal and bll were in the same web project, the dal was able to access ConfigSection properties through Global.cs. After moving the dal to it's own project, it no longer has access to globals, and therefore, no longer has access to the data provider types it needs to create an instance of the data provider. How did you redesign for this? If you could shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

WD

I, too am running into the same problem. I can't add circular references. Anyone have any ideas?

Again, thanks!

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Tara G Deschenes
Technimedia LLC

i had the same problem when i created a test thing using the flixon generator. solved it by creating a new 'globals' class lib project and moving globals, adminbasepage and configsection classes into it. referenced that project from the bll and dal projects. worked.

I am also in the process of separating the DAL and BLL into their own class libraries. I also created a separate class library for the Globals and ConfigSection classes. However, I get an error 'Value cannot be null.' when trying to create and instance of the storeprovider with the following code.

If IsNothing(_instance) Then
                _instance = CType(Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType(SiteGl obals.Globals.Settings.Store.ProviderType)), StoreProvider)
End If

When debugging the code the type 'sqlStoreProvider' is being returned but results in the above error.

Has anyone run into this problem when separating out the BLL and DAL?

Thanks in advance!