VS2005 UserControls

[Robert Mago]

Hi,

I have been using web usercontrols on 2003 for a very long time and i find
them userful for modularity. Usually what i do is create a subfolder called
'UserControls' for example and placed the web usercontrols there ( i would
change the namespace to *.UserControls.[control name] ).

However, when i tried this in VS2005, i couldn't get an instance of the
control when i did this.loadcontrol(control path) as X. Investigating
further i found that is no longer possible in VS2005 to get an instance of
the control that way.

So my question is, how do i achieve the same modularity in VS2005 for new
controls? Also, if i have existing solutions with the user controls already
developed and tested, is there a way to make a wrapper around them and use
them also?

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

You need to make an interface for the control in the AppCode folder and make
the control implement it. Then you can cast the reference from LoadControl to
the interface.
I imagine this might be why they included the extract interface refactoring
in VS2005.

Ciaran O'Donnell

 

[chanmm]

Try to compare your one with the common steps and see what you are missing:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123402.aspx

chanmm