INHERITS and NAMESPACES - VB, ASP.NET

[Paul Murphy]

I really am at a total loss. I have a project where I have determined that
the proper namespaces will be as follows


VB Components (.DLL)

HappyME.Data.Common
HappyME.Data.DATACOMPONENTNAME ( about 10 of these )
HappyME.Common.Images
HappyME.Common.Image
HappyME.Common.Members
HappyME.Common.Member
HappyME.Common.Sites
HappyME.Common.Site
HappyME.Common.Boards
HappyME.Common.Message

ASP.NET (VB) Components

HappyME.Web.Common.LiveShows
HappyME.Web.Common.Contact
HappyME.Web.Common.Videos
HappyME.Web.Common.XXXPhotos
HappyME.Web.Common.DailyGirls
HappyME.Web.Common.Webmaster
HappyME.Web.SexParadies.

My bottom two tiers are in great shape. All my namespace, inherits,
implement, overloads, etc... work just fine here. When i get into the realm
of the web application nothing seems to work. Every page ( I've tired with 3
or 4 different configurations ) dies with the same error:

Parser Error Message: 'HappyME.Web.Common.LiveShows.main' is not a
valid base class to inherit from
Line 1: <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false"
Codebehind="main.vb" Inherits="HappyME.Web.Common.LiveShows.main"%>


The code behind is as follows :

<SIC> all the standard imports </SIC>
Namespace HappyME.Web.Common.LiveShows

Public Class main

Inherits System.Web.UI.Page


#Region " Web Forms Designer Generated Code "


Dim WithEvents main As System.Web.UI.Page


Sub New()

main = Me

End Sub


'CODEGEN: This procedure is required by the Web Form Designer

'Do not modify it using the code editor.

Private Sub InitializeComponent()


End Sub


#End Region


Protected Sub main_Load(ByVal Sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs)

If Not IsPostback Then ' Evals true first time browser hits the page


End If

End Sub


Protected Sub main_Init(ByVal Sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs)

'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer

'Do not modify it using the code editor.

InitializeComponent()

End Sub


End Class


End Namespace



When I go out to another project and point a reference back in all the the
namespace.space.space.classnames show up as the should. But the ASP.NET
engine won't accept this. What am I missing here. I've spent a good amount
of time digging through all the .NET web sites. the MSDN is useless as it
never even addresses changing the default projectname.classname namespace
structures to a chosen structure for a ASP.NET application. When i use the
standard projectname.classname structure the pages work, but this doesn't
work with the rest of my design schema. Once again any help would be greatly
appreciated.





Paul Murphy

CD:X Service

[Dana Fillhart]

I posted this reply on aspngreuse, but I'll do it here for others' benefit:
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Is "HappyME" the name of your web project?

I had a similar problem, and solved it by prefixing my Inherits namespaces
in the @Page directive with the web project name as follows:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="main.vb"
Inherits="WEBPROJECTNAME.HappyME.Web.Common.LiveShows.main"%>

My situation was slightly different, in that I was using @Control directive
in an .ascx file, but the principle should be the same. (And yes, that's
not documented anywhere that I've seen.)

--Dana Fillhart