ManageUsers Repeater issue

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 12:35 PM

I'm having a strange issue on my ManageUsers.aspx page. I've already incorporated the membership module into one of my sites, and everything works fine. Now, as I'm trying to integrate it into another site, using the same code and configuration, the two Literals for Total Users and Users online, as well as the Alphabet Repeater do not show up. I first assumed this was a web.config issue, I don't think it is now. I'm thinking now that it's a PageLoad issue, but I don't know how to go about troubleshooting it beyond what I have. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 01:04 PM

As it turns out, using Literals anywhere on my site do not work, so I'm totally lost now. The EditUsers.aspx page doesn't display anything in the Literals; I'm beginning to think this is a site configuration issue, but again, I don't know where to start looking.

Lee Dumond · March 3rd, 2008, 02:36 PM

That is certainly weird. There is nothing "magic" about literals. They basically render text unchanged to the page wherever they appear.

Have you tried making the simplest possible page with a literal as a test? Like the following:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Literal Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server" Text="This is a literal" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Try that and see what happens.

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 03:41 PM

Yeah, that works; it seems, for whatever reason, to not be executing the code behind I have attached to it anywhere on the site, whether it's a literal or a label. This would presumably account for why it's not loading the rptAlphabet at the same time it would load the values for the literals.

So, to summarize: literals and labels work fine when their values are not loaded from code behind files, and I'm suspecting for some reason, the Page_Load event is being fired correctly.

PS: I'm using the VB.NET code created by MythicalMe, which, as I said, works terrific on the site I've done.

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 06:23 PM

Well, it turns out that I'm just an idiot.

Apparently, putting a OnLoad Override in the BasePage to load the page title automatically OVERRIDES the page_load calls on the page. Yep, getting rid of that override fixed ALL the problems I was having, and further reduced me to a fuming mess. Ah well, I'll know NEVER to do that again!

Lee Dumond · March 3rd, 2008, 06:33 PM

If you need to override the OnLoad event in the BasePage, you should call the OnLoad method on the base object, so that this won't happen...

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
      {
         // do whatever you need to do here
         ...blah blah blah...

         base.OnLoad(e);
      }

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 06:54 PM

How would that translate to VB.NET?

        Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
            Page.Title = "Peach Vintage & Antiques - Your online source for North Georgia Antiques and Collectibles"
        End Sub

That's the override I had in the BasePage.vb . I guess basically my question is what is base.Onload(e) doing, so I can figure out how to do it in VB XD

By the way, thanks for all your help!

Lee Dumond · March 3rd, 2008, 07:54 PM

Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
    ' do whatever you need to do here
         ...blah blah blah...

    MyBase.OnLoad(e)
End Sub

MyBase.OnLoad(e) passes the eventargs through to the page and runs its OnLoad method.

Antilles128 · March 3rd, 2008, 11:47 PM

Awesome! Just when I think I'm getting the hang of this stuff, something little like this comes around and humbles me. Thanks again for your help!