When I try to instantiate the "TemplatedCreditCardForm" the application complains that paymentMethodLabel is null. As I understood from the book, if the template is not used, the base "CompositeCreditCardForm" is used. This does not seem to be happening.

Hi, geomar,

I had no problem running the same page without specifying templates. The CompositeCreditCardForm is used as expected. I did not get the error that you mentioned in your post.

Here is what I did. I removed all the templates from the TemplatedCreditCardForm.aspx page:

<form id="form1" runat="server">
    <custom:TemplatedCreditCardForm ID="ccf"
     OnValidateCreditCard="ValidateCreditCard" runat="server"
     CardholderNameText="Cardholder's Name"
     CreditCardNoText="Credit Card No."
     PaymentMethodText="Payment Method"
     ExpirationDateText="Expiration Date"
     SubmitButtonText="Submit" Font-Bold="true" />

    <br /><br />
    <asp:Label runat="server" ID="info" />
 </form>

Regards,
Shahram



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Shahram Khosravi, Ph.D.
Author of Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development

Thanks for the reply. I was typing the code from the text, not the source code. My mistake. In the source code the properties for the labels are overidden. Since I did not override these properties, the labels had not yet been instantiated so a null object error was thrown.

Thanks again.