Creating custom item templates for my web app

goose · August 5th, 2013, 11:30 AM

I've got a web app project that I'm looking at creating some item templates for in VS 2010, any new pages created from these templates need to have a using statement for my mainClasses folder. The problem is that every time a new page is created VS changes the using statement from using MyProject.mainClasses to MyProject.LocationOfPage.mainClasses. It is obviously looking for the project name so it can change the namespace accordingly but annoyingly its also changing my using statement, which breaks my project.

I think this would't be a problem if I had a website project and an App_Code folder as I wouldn't need a using statement but it's not and I can't so I'm stuck :(

Any help greatfully appreciated if anyone can figure out what I'm bumbling on about.

I'm using C# by the way and the templates technique from the book(ish)

Cheers

Russ

Imar · August 5th, 2013, 01:35 PM

Hi there,

I am not sure I understand the problem. VS usually doesn't change the using statement; are you maybe referring to the namespace element instead? Or did you include a dynamic placeholder in the template for the using statement?

Imar

goose · August 6th, 2013, 05:22 AM

Hi Imar,

Thanks for the reply. I got to the bottom of it in the end. It was due to VS inserting placeholders in the using statement during export, so I had to go in to the zip files to manually remove them.

If it's any use I had:

using ProjMyproject.mainClasses;

Which VS was replacing with:

using $rootnamespace$.mainClasses;

This was causing it to change my using statement every time I created a new page using the templates.

Thanks again

Russ

Imar · August 6th, 2013, 06:56 AM

Ah, yes, that makes sense. It picked that up from the project settings. For class names / namespaces that's what you want but VS didn't see this was a using statement.

Glad you were able to fix it.

Cheers,

Imar