Hi, I am working on the exercise starting on page 326 in Chapter 8 about Implementing the NavigateUrl property.

On step 6 it asks you to modify the Page_Load handler of the user control so it also sets the HRef property of the anchor element.

It asks you to insert these lines of code into my user control...
HorizontalLink.HRef = NavigateUrl;and
VerticalLink.HRef = NavigateUrl;
The problem I am having is that it isnt accepting those lines of code. It seems that I am missing the service references in order for it to accept the "HRef" part. I have looked it up and inserted the assembly reference
"using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor;" but still no luck.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks, Nick

Hi Nick,

Can you post the markup for the control? Looks like you forgot the runat attribute.

Cheers,

Imar

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Hi Imar, yeah here it is...

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Banner.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls_Banner" %>
<asp:Panel ID="VerticalPanel" runat="server">
<a href="http://p2p.wrox.com"><asp:Image ID="VerticalLink" runat="server" AlternateText="This is a sample banner"
ImageUrl="~/Images/Banner120x240.gif"/></a>>
</asp:Panel>
<asp:Panel ID="HorizontalPanel" runat="server">
<a href="http://p2p.wrox.com"><asp:Image ID="HorizontalLink" runat="server" AlternateText="This is a sample banner"
ImageUrl="~/Images/Banner468x60.gif"/></a>>
</asp:Panel>



Just a little point, before this exercise the image id's where Banner 2 and Banner 1 respectively. I changed them to Vertical/Horizontal in step 5.

Thanks, Nick

Step 5 explains how to *add* a runat and id attribute to the outer <a> element; i.e. to the link. It looks like you added / updated them on the inner Image control instead. Take a look at the code in step 5 to see what I mean.

Cheers,

Imar

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Got it working now, thank you for that Imar!

Nick