Hello Marenela

If you right click on the white folder icon you are given an option to include it as part of the project. It then changes colour and becomes accessable as a normal folder.


Lynn

Just make sure you push the "Show All Files" button in Solution Explorer, and it will show the files and let you edit them.

If you insist on making the controls part of the project, then you need to set the "Build Action" property to "Content" or "None" on these files to prevent them from being compiled with your project.

Eric

Hello,

 Now I understand that these User Controls are part of a project lives inside a folder inside the main startup project "thePhile". and I read the article "Creating Multiple Projects in ASP.NET" that was my point. now I want to understand how to add these user controls from thier project to the main project "thePhile". and why they are not compiled in the bin folder of thier project??????????
Thanks
Marenela

I made a small oversight - the codebehind of user controls can be compiled into the main DLL, or deployed as source files to the web server. The choice of how to handle the code-behind files depends on the attributes in the @CONTROL directive in the .ascx file.

If you see INHERITS=, then the code-behind of that control does need to be compiled with the project. If you see SRC= instead of INHERITS=, then you deploy the source to the web server.

The .ascx files are always deployed with SRC= in the @REGISTER directive of the host page. This is what I was thinking about when I answered this question.

The default in VS 2003 is to use INHERITS= for the code-behind and SRC= for the .ascx. The default in VS 2005 is to use SRC= for everything.

As I said before, I really think you could use some more experience with smaller projects. It's very hard for me to teach you everything in this forum :-)

Please email me offline if you need help that isn't specific to this project. The people who read this forum are only interested in ThePhile.

Eric

Thanks Eric,

 Eric I study 16 hours daily. I'm getting a good foundation believe me and your help save me a great time too :-). Anyway, I don't have your e-mail to e-mail you offline. please send me an empty message to csharpcoding@yahoo.com ok?
Thanks again
Marenela