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Creating custom modules and custom web User controls/ascx

1/4/2006 11:10 AM

Charles Nurse

Joined: 2/9/2004

Posts: 3652

Re: Creating custom modules and custom web User controls/ascx

elorenz wrote

With the previous verion of DNN we created class libraries for our modules. In these class libraries we composed our ASCX files etc.

I would like to continue to do the same thing with DNN 4.x and VS 2005.

The problem is I don't seem to be able to get VS 2005 to recognize the ASCX files, and their code behind files, within a class library project like I did with VS 2003.

Exactly - this behaviour is no longer supported by Microsoft (it actually was never intended to be supported in VS 2003 - but it worked).

There are two ways to work in VS2005.

1. Using the approach shaun described which does all the module development in the web-project and then uses Precompile to get the assemblies.
2. Use a similar approach to VS2003/.NET1.1 - ie with a Class Library for the Business Layer (Info/Controller/DataProvider), a separate Class Library for the SqlDataProvider class. The main difference is that the UI components need to be in the web-project itself.

Charles Nurse
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