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Wilfredo Rosado · June 13th, 2010, 10:24 PM

After performing step 5 in Chapter 7, page 251 for another website I am working on, I recieved errors after pressing CTRL + F5. Apparently the /about/default.aspx, /services/default.aspx, and /contact/default.aspx are the culprits, but I cannot find anything wrong with them.

Here are the first 5 errors when compiling:

Code:

Error	1	'Title' is not a member of 'ASP.about_default_aspx'.	C:\temp\Home-Remake\About\Default.aspx	

Error	2	'InitializeCulture' is not a member of 'ASP.about_default_aspx'.	C:\temp\Home-Remake\About\Default.aspx	1

Error	3	'MasterPageFile' is not a member of 'ASP.about_default_aspx'.	C:\temp\Home-Remake\About\Default.aspx	1

Error	4	'AddContentTemplate' is not a member of 'ASP.about_default_aspx'.	C:\temp\Home-Remake\About\Default.aspx	3

Error	5	'AddContentTemplate' is not a member of 'ASP.about_default_aspx'.	C:\temp\Home-Remake\About\Default.aspx	5

As you cane see its the default.aspx under the folder About, which is causing the problem. remove the file and it compiles OK, but I now cannot make the default page for About Us.

Got any ideas,
Fred Rosado

Here is my /about/default.aspx code. The <%@ Page line gets a blue sguiggly line under it. If you hover over the line it says, " 'Context' is not a member of 'Default' ":

Code:

  <%@ Page Title="About Home-Remake" Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="Default" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" Runat="Server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="cpMainContent" Runat="Server">
</asp:Content>

Here is my web.sitemap code:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
  <siteMapNode url="~/" title="Welcome"  description="Welcome to Home-Remake">
    <siteMapNode url="~/Default.aspx" title="Welcome"  description="Go to the Welcome page" />
    <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Default.aspx" title="Services" description="Services on this site">
      <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Carpentry.aspx" title="Carpentry" description="Carpentry" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Electrical.aspx" title="Electrical" description="Electrical" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Plumbing.aspx" title="Plumbing" description="Plumbing" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Drywall.aspx" title="Drywalling" description="Drywall" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Services/Tile.aspx" title="Tiling" description="Floor and wall tiles" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/Photos/Default.aspx" title="Photo Gallery" description="Photo Gallery">
      <siteMapNode url="~/Photos/Client.aspx" title="By Client" description="Show by client" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Photos/Type.aspx" title="By Type" description="Show by type" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Photos/Town.aspx" title="By Town" description="Show by town" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Photos/All.aspx" title="All" description="Show all photos" />
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/About/Default.aspx" title="About Us" description="About Home-Remake">
      <siteMapNode url="~/About/Login.aspx" title="Log In" description="Log in to your account" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/About/Contact.aspx" title="Contact Us" description="Send us an email" />
    </siteMapNode>
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Imar · June 14th, 2010, 02:28 AM

Hi there,

Is your template set up correctly? Take a look at this:

Code:

 
<%@ Page Title="About Home-Remake" Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="Default" %>

It should inherit _Default (with an underscore) as Default is a reserved word in VB...

Hope this helps,

Imar

Wilfredo Rosado · June 15th, 2010, 03:20 AM

Thanks Imar...Like usual, you always come through for me. I checked the template and even recreated a new one being careful not to miss a step, but it still didn't put the _Default. After the fact, I kind of remembered reading in one of the earlier chapters, something about having to manually change the Default to _Default. So I did in both the Default.aspx and it's Code Behind. It works like a champ now.

Do you still think the template should have automatically put the underscore in front of the word default? ...Fred

Imar · June 15th, 2010, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Do you still think the template should have automatically put the underscore in front of the word default?

No, it shouldn't. I think it's actually a bug in the book. It works fine for all pages except for Default.aspx which, unfortunately, is quite a common name ;-)

In the 4.0 version of the book I fixed it like this:

Public Partial Class $relurlnamespace$_$safeitemname$

This adds the underscore for *all* pages in the root (which is OK), but has an added benefit in that it correctly creates classes named after sub folders. So a page called Default.aspx in the About folder ends up as About_Default

You can use the same trick in Visual Studio 2008.

Hope this helps,

Imar