Chapter 6

kent1975 · January 16th, 2011, 07:23 AM

hello.

I've got some trouble in chapter 6 when changing class for masterpage.frontend, now i got an error message:

ContentPlaceHolders not member of ASP.masterpages_frontend_master, getting det same message for ContentTemplates, InstantiateContentPlaceHolder.

I don't understand what is wrong. Tried to change back to System.Web.UI.Page, but still get det same message...

Can you help?

BTW, great book!

Kent from Norway

Imar · January 16th, 2011, 07:59 AM

Hi there,

Can you provide more detail about the following:

1. The exact steps you carried out for quote: "when changing class for masterpage.frontend".

2. The exact error message you're getting?

Cheers,

Imar

kent1975 · January 16th, 2011, 08:34 AM

hi.

First i created the BasePage:

Code:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Public Class BasePage
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Private Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRender
        If Me.Title = "Untitled Page" Or String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.Title) Then
            Throw New Exception("Page title cannot be ""Untitled Page"" or an empty string.")
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

Then I changed the class for Login.aspx.vb like this:

Code:

Partial Class Login
    Inherits BasePage
End Class

Tried it in the browser at this worked fine.

Then i changed System.Web.UI.Page to BasePage for the Default.aspx.vb and the Frontpage.master.vb, saved the changes. this code-files looks like this:

Code:

Partial Class Masterpage_Frontend
    Inherits BasePage
End Class

Code:

Partial Class _Default
    Inherits BasePage

End Class

After these changes i'm getting errors, in the explorer this looks like this:

Kildefeil:

Linje 1:
Linje 2: Partial Class Masterpage_Frontend
Linje 3: Inherits BasePage
Linje 4: End Class

I tride to change back til System.Web.UI.Page, but same error.

any ide what is wrong?

kent1975 · January 16th, 2011, 08:43 AM

BTW - i VWD it's a file named: App_Web_sfzoihn.0.vb where the errors are pointed against.
I got 8 errors where it says at ContentPlaceHolders, ContentTemplates, InstantiateInContentPlaceHolder is not a member of ASP.masterpages_frontend_master.

Imar · January 16th, 2011, 08:46 AM

Ah, I see.

You should only let Web Forms (.aspx pages) inherit BasePage. You shouldn't touch the code behind and the inherits statement for the Master Page.

Hope this helps,

Imar

kent1975 · January 16th, 2011, 09:28 AM

Thanks, that worked fine. I changed the code in Masterpage and didn't notice that this inherits from Masterpage and not Page.
Then I'm back on track..