Does anyone have any suggestions on how to compile the SDK version of the ASP .NET Portal Starter Kit.

I have followed the White Paper on adding a custom module.  Everything works except that when I load that page, I get an error: 

Server Error in '/PSK' Application.

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: BC30002: Type 'ASPNET.StarterKit.Portal.ProvidersDB' is not defined.

Source Error:

Line 17: ' Obtain announcement information from Announcements table Line 18: ' and bind to the datalist control Line 19: Dim Providers As New ASPNET.StarterKit.Portal.ProvidersDB() Line 20: Line 21: ' DataBind Announcements to DataList Control

Source File: d:\inetpub\anthonystark\PSK\DesktopModules\Providers.ascx    Line: 19

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I have read that the 'VS' (visual studio) version is easier to build but I'm hosting remotely and it seems that I cannot use the VS version as easily if I'm not developing locally.

Any suggestions/documents are very welcomed . . .

Thanks in advance,

Tony

To compile, simply  run the batch file called mk.bat in the components folder.  Doesn't get much easier than that.

If other pages work, then the compilation apparently worked, and so the problem appears to be in the file called Providers.ascx

Since it can't find "ASPNET.StarterKit.Portal.ProvidersDB"  , verify namespace and class name spelling and then use:

Dim Providers As New <namespace>.<class>

Thanks for your response webber.

I ran the mk batch file and the page still gives the same error.  I've checked the namespace, class name, etc. and all is well.  Below is a copy of the mk.bat file for review (also, this is running on a remote web server)  - Any help?? :

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
vbc /t:library /out:..\bin\ASPNETPortal.dll *.vb /r:System.web.dll /r:System.data.dll /r:system.dll /r:System.Drawing.dll /r:System.Xml.dll /r:System.Web.Mobile.dll
pause

If someone can give me any direction I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again webber for your help so far,

Tony

I finally got it to work.  This is what I had to do:

1) Copy the Components folder local with whatever vb files I wanted to compile (i.e. all the existing ones plus ProvidersDB.vb).

2) Place this in a testing folder structure like: (the batch file is looking for a bin directory at the same level of Components)

Test

   - bin (folder)

   - Components (folder)

      - *.vb files

      - mk.bat

3) Run the mk.bat file locally which will create the ASPNETPortal.dll in the local bin directory

4) Copy this .dll to the web directory

I hope this works for others (I've been seeing similar posts in other message boards),

Tony

Glad you got it working.

That's actually the standard folder structure for the sdk version and should have existed when the  portal was  installed.

For the remote location, the components folder does not need to be uploaded.  The bin folder does need to exist on the remote server with any DLL files you are currently using.