I created my first user control and getting this error. I took it out and im STILL getting the error. This worked fine 2 days ago, not sure what happened. Trying to run the general Planet Wrox site. Please help. Thanks!

Here is the error:

System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code
Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source=App_Web_3f3iysao
StackTrace:
at MasterPages_Frontend.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\BegASPNET\mystie\MasterPages\Frontend.master.cs :line 25
at System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller (IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Cal lback(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
InnerException:

Here is the code that its happening on (within the page load):
switch (Page.Theme.ToLower()) //error happening here
{
case "darkgrey":
Menu1.Visible = false;
TreeView1.Visible = true;
break;
default:
Menu1.Visible = true;
TreeView1.Visible = false;
break;
}

If you get an error on this code: Page.Theme.ToLower() my guess is that the Theme property is null. Are you you set one on the <pages /> element in web.config?

Imar

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Imar,

That worked! thanks a lot for responding so fast. Is there something I might have done accidentally that would have removed that?? Love the book.

Not really. Maybe you cut it away to test something out, or maybe you're using a different web.config file than you previously were....

Imar

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ok great. THANKS!!!

In that case, please use the Thanks button below each post you feel happy about.... ;-)

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sorry! new to the forums, just "thanked" you.

Why should I have to set the theme in the web.config file? The switch themes logic doesn't work anymore. It used to work before I created the user control in chapter 8. Why does that cause the theme switching to be in error?
Mollie

In another forum, we were told to remove the <pages> control from the web.config file so that the Dark Grey style theme would work correctly.
Mollie

Curiously, the error disappeared when site-wide registration was employed. I tried using the pages directive without the theme; that works fine. What is going on?
Mollie