namespaces in VS 2005

[Christopher Duncan]

I'm sure I'm overlooking something embarrasingly obvious here, but... In my VS 2003 projects, each file was wrapped in a common namespace. I typically derive a base page class from the system ui page, and then derive all my pages from it so that I can use it for common page code. No problemo. However, I just discovered that VS 2005 doesn't wrap namespace code around all the pages. Consequently, when deriving my pages from my base page class, the compiler complains that it can't find a class or namespace matching the name the base page class I've created. It was my understanding that everything was a member of the implicit global namespace, so I don't know why the class name isn't recognized. I put it in it's own .cs file & added to the project. Anyway, I'm sure it's some glaring little thing I'm overlooking, but if someone could set me straight I'd be most grateful. Thanks!

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[Jim Conigliaro]

The "Web Site" project in VS05 is a fundamental shift in architecture from the web projects in VS03. The web site projects are operate less like applications and more like content managed web sites. Web pages get indivually compiled into their own dlls by default and as such, don't belong to a namespace. You could manually add namespaces and configure the project to compile to a single dll, however, I would recommend that you install the "Web Application" project, which didn't ship with VS05 but is available for download from: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336618.aspx[^] The Web Application project is more consistent with the VS03 web projects and is easier to manage as a complex application.

Jim Conigliaro jconigliaro@ieee.org
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[Christopher Duncan]

Thanks, Jim. That's useful info about web sites versus applications. As it turns out, moving the .cs file to the App_Code folder makes it globally accessible. Not particularly intuitive, but kinda nice from a file management perspective.

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