Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 ???

[salsipius]

Hi all,

I so far understand how to acces controls on a master page, but the problem I am having is accessing classes and variable that I create in the C# file of my master page. here's a snippett of two classes being declared on my master page


private User _user;
private SAI_Login _login;

I want to declare these variables on my master page so I can have access to their members throughout my application
( Is this a good Idea or the right way to do things)

now on each of my pages I want to be able to access the above classes and their members


I know This is how it is done for a Control

Menu myMenu = new Menu();
myMenu = (Menu)Master.FindControl("Menu2");

And Msdn says to create a property for the members in the MasterPage but this does not seem to work with Classes

Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. If am am going about it all wrong please be blunt, I would rather do it right than half ***


Here is a good example of what i'm doing

My classes on the master page, classes within my namespace

private SAIWEB.User _user;
private SAIWEB.SAI_Login _login;

Here are my public properties

public User My_user
{
get{ return _user; }
//I don't think I need a set
}

public SAI_Login My_login
{
get{ return _login;}
}

Here is the Header from one of my aspx pages inheriting from this master

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/SAI_BasePage.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Login.aspx.cs" Inherits="Login1" Title="Untitled Page" %>


And here is the code that I am using to try and access the property on my aspx page

//I declare a local instance of the type of variable or class I want
SAIWEB.User localUser = master.My_user;

The line above returns this error
Error 2 'System.Web.UI.MasterPage' does not contain a definition for 'My_user'


What am I doing Wrong???????????????

Please Help

[mpoirier]

It seems you may have forgotten to add a MasterType directive on your Content page like so:

<%@ MasterType TypeName="SAIWEB.Master_Page_Class_Name" %>

But even with this I cannot get this to work as is... But that's just me, I hope...

What I have to do in the Content page is this:

public partial class _Default : Page
{
	private SAIWEB.MasterClass master;

	override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
	{
		// link back to master page
		master = (SAIWEB.MasterClass)base.Master;
	}
}

But I don't know why I am supposed to add this code, this is what I am trying to find out here...

In your case, just add the MasterType directive...