Hey Guys,

 A little while back I did SP1 on my VS 2005 Standard Edition. Now when I create new Web Apps, and double click on server controls, it's putting the event handler stub in the script. Like this:

<script runat="server">

</script>

Instead of this:

when you add pages to your web application do you tick the box which is store code in code behind file?  You have inline code there as opposed to code behind

Thanks for replying so quickly, Andrew

Here's something funny. I add a new webform using right click on my solution explorer, Add New Item, then the standard dialog pops up. If I click on Web Form, there's no options at the bottom except to change the file name.

 I do remember for a while ago seeing the checkbox you mention. But I can't remember the last time I ever saw that. I wonder if there's a visual studio global property I need to reset or something.

Anyway, I was looking at the attribute list in the intellisense for the page directives. And I saw a CodeFile (which looks a lot like CodeBehind). I replaced CodeBehind with CodeFile in the default page attributes, and voila. Now my method stubs pop up in my code file. So weird!

I don't mind change the directive on each new file, but I wish I knew the root cause.

Again, thanks Andrew :)

Hi Magnesium,

I agree that there are some settings (about the codebehind) may be changed on your machine. I try to find the setting but no luck. I suggest you to run ?devenv /resetsettings? or ?devenv /setup? in Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt. They can resolve most of the IDE issues. I hope they are helpful to you.

By the way, if you cannot find the ?Place code in separate file? option, please make sure your web project is the ?Web Site project? or the ?Web Application project?. "Web Application project" doesn?t have this option.

Thanks, that's a great idea. I wasn't even aware of that possibility

I'll mark this as answered. I don't think we're going to get further with it.

thanks to all who answered