I am using the Wrox book for custom controls.

I am using their examples and everything they have in their examples works just fine but if I make slight additions to the code I dont see the change I have made being reflected.

my code is as given below (the portion I made I will indicate in bold):

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace TestControlNameSpace2
{
     /// <summary>
     /// Summary description for WebCustomControl1.
     /// The Client Web Form is Called TestControlClient2.aspx
     /// </summary>
     [DefaultProperty("Text"),
     ToolboxData("<{0}:TestControl2 runat=server></{0}:TestControl2>")]
     public class TestControl2 : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
     {
          private string text;
          private string message;
          private string anotherMessage;

          [Bindable(true),
          Category("Appearance"),
          DefaultValue("")]
          public string Text
          {
               get
               {
                    return text;
               }

               set
               {
                    text = value;
               }
          }
          [Bindable(true),Category("Misc")]
          public string ExMessage
          {
               get{return message;}
               set {message=value;}
          }
          [Bindable true),Category"Misc")]
public string AnotherMessage
          {
               get{return anotherMessage;}
               set{anotherMessage=value;}
          }
          /// <summary>
          /// Render this control to the output parameter specified.
          /// </summary>
          /// <param name="output"> The HTML writer to write out to </param>
          protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output)
          {
               output.Write(text+" "+message+" "+anotherMessage);
          }
     }
}

I hope my code is clear to understand and now for the problem ....
I added string anotherMessage and its accessor and setter method WHICH IS EXACTLY LIKE THE ExMessage method.
I basically copied the ExMessage code for AnotherMessage and in Render method I added anotherMessage as a part of the string.

It does not work.... I am surprised WHY ? I didnt do anything fancy here ... just copy paste.
Without the anotherMessage everything looks and works great !
What do you think ?
Please help me . I am a newbie and am using the Wrox book for control making "ASP.NET Server Control".

I use the VS.NET 2003 and could it be that the code in the book is focussing on v1.0 and the version I use is v1.1.

This sounds like a setup issue to me, rather than a 1.0 Vs 1.1 problem....

Are you sure that the code that consumes your DLL can see the latest version of it? Isn't it possible that you're always looking at the old (and out-dated) DLL instead? How do you reference your new control?

Imar
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