I'm learning how to work with Master pages here to redo our interface. one of the thing i want to do is pass some title, header, footer info from the content page to the master page, since that info changes from page to page.

 I've read this article that i find relaly useful : http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/450.aspx

and in it, it explains that i can create a property in the masterpage to transfert info back & forth between the master page and the content page.

Now, i created my properties alright and it compiles, but my content page won't see it, it wont see the new properties. I've done everything the article says, can someone tell me what im doing wrong ? I'm guessing it has something to do with our namespace structure but i dont see why the new properties cannot be seen if everything compiles properly.

Here are a few snapshots from the code :

'Master page

<%@ Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Interdec.master.vb"  Inherits="Interdec.UILayer.Interdec" %>

Public Partial Class Interdec
  Inherits System.Web.UI.MasterPage

  Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
  End Sub

  Public Property PageTitle() As String
    Get
      Return lblTitle.InnerText
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As String)
      lblTitle.InnerText = value
    End Set
  End Property
End Class

 
'Login page

<%@ Page Language="vb" MasterPageFile="~/Interdec.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" 
         Codebehind="Login.aspx.vb" Inherits="Interdec.UILayer.Login.Login" 
         EnableSessionState="False" enableViewState="True"%>
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/Interdec.Master" %>

  Public Overrides Sub FillLabels()

    With MyBase.Resources
      Master.ClaimantName = "wahtever" 'does not work
      Master.Page.Title = .GetString("3257") & " - " & .GetString("3009")
  End Sub

The code seems fine, having the MasterType shall make it work!

Are you getting any exceptions in your code?

Regards

uh.... ok, i feel like a noob now.

ever since we converted from 1.1 to 2.0 we kept getting errors from our namespace when we reach for something using the complete namespace path.

 well, you're right, even though everything compiled and worked, looking at the list of errors, i saw an error in the designer.vb file, which was still using a complete reference, i guess vsnet 2005 is not too fond of those.

 
my code was

        Public Shadows ReadOnly Property Master() As Interdec.UILayer.Interdec
            Get
                Return CType(MyBase.Master, Interdec.UILayer.Interdec)
            End Get
        End Property

While it should have been

        Public Shadows ReadOnly Property Master() As UILayer.Interdec
            Get
                Return CType(MyBase.Master, UILayer.Interdec)
            End Get
        End Property

 
 and i hadnt seen it yet because in my error list all there was were errors about images not having the right path. which is normal since im still in the middle of the conversion. then at the very end, was that error.

i feel bad for posting about it but im relieved that its nothing serious :)

Thanks. 

Can I understand you solved the problem? Well, nothing comes at ease!

Good Luck,

Regards

as it turns out, i had answered too quickly, im still new to .net 2005 and i hadn't understood that the designed.vb file is generated by .net 2005, so any change i made there was eventually changed again by .net

but knowing the error put me on the right track. in the end, i just changed the "inherits" attribute of the @master directive and it worked.

I recommend you get a Blog and post about that! You are new to ASP.NET 2.0, you will find so many things on your way, that so many beginners like you will find those findings helpfull!

Best Regards