Hi.
I have developing a new web site and utilising some of the functionality used in TBH. My code is
VB.net but I have followed the Problem Design Solution book where appropriate.
I am using only the Articles Management, Newsletter and RSS features of TBH so have just added the classes that I need into my own namespaces.
My problem is with the RSS Reader user control (RssReader.ascx). The GetArticlesRSS.aspx page works fine and retrieves the information from my db successfully.
However, when I add the RssReader user control to one of my pages I get the following error:
Quote:
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quote:Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.default_aspx' to type 'Retro.Web.UI.BasePage'
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(Retro.Web.UI as per MB.TheBeerHouse.UI)
This is caused by the following code:
VB:
Code:
url = CType(Me.Page, BasePage).FullBaseUrl + value
C#
Code:
url = (this.Page as BasePage).FullBaseUrl + value
To debug further I created a new page and entered the following code on the page load event:
Code:
Dim value As String = "~/GetArticlesRSS.aspx"
Dim url As String = value
If url.StartsWith("/") OrElse value.StartsWith("~/") Then
url = CType(Me.Page.Master.Page, BasePage).FullBaseUrl.ToString() + value
url = url.Replace("~/", "")
Response.Write(url)
End If
I have passed the RSSFeed Url as I would when declaring the user control and used the same syntax to build the full url and output this to the page. The result is:
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quote:http://localhost:49920/MyWebsite/GetArticlesRSS.aspx
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So this works fine.
It seems as if the control is unable to pass a valid value for Me.Page???
Any help would be appreciated. I can get around this for now by making this a none generic control but ideally I would like to use this in some of the subdomains of my site so will need to be able to get the full url.
Thanks,
Ben
Problem with RssReader.ascx user control
