MyBasePage template has freaky errors

GreenhornPup · March 13th, 2013, 03:08 PM

Hi Imar!

I'm following the Try-It-Out exercises in the book (I love your book, btw), and when I go to use the MyBasePage template I created (twice) in Chapter 6 (Pages 210-212), I get the following error: 'Context' is not a member of '_TestPage'. VWD underlines the directive at the very top as the offending code. Below is my markup for TestPage.aspx:

Code:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/Frontend.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="TestPage.aspx.vb" Inherits="_TestPage" %>

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

And here is the code behind TestPage.aspx.vb:

Code:

Partial Class TestPage
		Inherits BasePage

End Class

Finally, the code for BasePage.vb:

Code:

Public Class BasePage
  Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

  Private Sub Page_PreInit(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
      Handles Me.PreInit
    Dim preferredTheme As HttpCookie = Request.Cookies.Get("PreferredTheme")
    If preferredTheme IsNot Nothing Then
      Page.Theme = preferredTheme.Value
    End If
  End Sub
  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

Where the heck is VWD getting this 'Context' thing from?

I really hope you can help me. I did this exercise multiple times and followed the book down to the letter. What could I have done wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Imar · March 13th, 2013, 03:20 PM

Hi there,

Take a look at this:

Code:

Inherits="_TestPage"

and this:

Code:

Partial Class TestPage

There's an underscore missing in the code behind class.

Based on the Markup and Code Behind, .NET creates a new file under the hood. That may have a reference to Context but it breaks somehow because of the mismatch between Markup and Code Behind.

Hope this helps,

Imar

GreenhornPup · March 13th, 2013, 09:35 PM

Thank you, Imar!

Now, on the Try-It-Out on p.253-255 in Chapter 7, I have to tweak my markup and my code behind. For example, in the new folder called Reviews and its files called "Default.aspx" and "All.aspx", the Inherits clause in the directive points to "Reviews_Default and Reviews_All, respectively. I have to delete the "Reviews" from it so it will say "_Default" or "_All", as well as add an underscore to "Default" and "All" in the code behind. Given valid titles, they both work awesome. Is this normal, or have I done something wrong somewhere else that would cause me to have to do the tweaking?

Nevermind, lol, I've got it working now. I just went back and redid p. 215-217, and it's working great so far. Thank you so much for your help. If I need anything else, I'll holler.

GreenhornPup

Imar · March 14th, 2013, 10:05 AM

Yeah, I was just going to recommend that. If you create the template as designed, new pages work as intended, and you don't have to manually change anything.

Cheers,

Imar

GreenhornPup · March 14th, 2013, 10:23 AM

Imar, I have another problem now. The MyBasePage template keeps disappearing from the menu when I click "add new item". I use both VB and C#, and therefore have separate folders for each. I still have the MyBasePage for VB, but the one for C# keeps disappearing, even after it worked so beautifully for me last night when I re-created it. And yes, when I imported it, I did specify C# as the language. Why did it disappear, and will I have to keep creating the same template over and over if I want to use MyBasePage for C#? Your help is greatly appreciated.

GreenhornPup

Imar · March 14th, 2013, 10:25 AM

Did you rename the ZIP file in the template folder after you created the first template as recommended in the book? If they have same name, the second one overwrites the first one.

I have both templates show up at the same time (that is, the C# version in the C# site and the VB version in the VB site) so it's definitely possible.

Cheers,

Imar