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I am trying to add 5 "Web User Controls" for use on one WebForm. My
idea was to take kind of a wizard approach -- show uc1 and hide the the
other 4...then next run of the page, show uc2 and hide the other 4.
So, I have created 5 usercontrols in my project (ASP.Net using VB and
using VS2003) by right clicking the project and choose "Add Web User
Control".

After I do that, I was expecting to see the 5 usercontrols listed in
the toolbox under "My User Controls" but they aren't. That may be the
real symptom of my problem.

But, to get around that, I just dragged the usercontrol from the
Solution Explorer and dropped it onto my WebForm1 page. It shows up,
but it shows up kind of like a definition, not an object. It is a gray
rectangle with "UserControl - UcPage11" shown (the original name of the
uc is ucPage1). I can't resize it, etc.

I also can't reference the usercontrol in code for the page itself.
UcPage11.visible = True results in UcPage11 being underlined in blue,
meaning that the compiler doesn't know what UcPage11 is.

So, if I change it to ucPage1.Visible = True then it tells me that I
must use an instance of the control, not the definition.

I know that I need to instantiate an instance of ucPage1, but how do I
do that? I know it's probably something stupid, but I can't figure out
what I'm doing wrong.

Obviously, I'm very new to ASP.Net, so if there is a better way to do
this, I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks for any and all help.

Matt

I suggest you use the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard control to dramatically simplify
your design.

Here's more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...1/CuttingEdge/

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr
MCSD, MVP, CSM
http://SteveOrr.net


"YYZ" <> wrote in message
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>I am trying to add 5 "Web User Controls" for use on one WebForm. My
> idea was to take kind of a wizard approach -- show uc1 and hide the the
> other 4...then next run of the page, show uc2 and hide the other 4.
> So, I have created 5 usercontrols in my project (ASP.Net using VB and
> using VS2003) by right clicking the project and choose "Add Web User
> Control".
>
> After I do that, I was expecting to see the 5 usercontrols listed in
> the toolbox under "My User Controls" but they aren't. That may be the
> real symptom of my problem.
>
> But, to get around that, I just dragged the usercontrol from the
> Solution Explorer and dropped it onto my WebForm1 page. It shows up,
> but it shows up kind of like a definition, not an object. It is a gray
> rectangle with "UserControl - UcPage11" shown (the original name of the
> uc is ucPage1). I can't resize it, etc.
>
> I also can't reference the usercontrol in code for the page itself.
> UcPage11.visible = True results in UcPage11 being underlined in blue,
> meaning that the compiler doesn't know what UcPage11 is.
>
> So, if I change it to ucPage1.Visible = True then it tells me that I
> must use an instance of the control, not the definition.
>
> I know that I need to instantiate an instance of ucPage1, but how do I
> do that? I know it's probably something stupid, but I can't figure out
> what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Obviously, I'm very new to ASP.Net, so if there is a better way to do
> this, I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> Matt
>

On Nov 8, 12:34 pm, "Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <S...@Orr.net> wrote:
> I suggest you use the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard control to dramatically simplify
> your design.
>
> Here's more info:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...1/CuttingEdge/

Thanks Steve, but I'm using .Net 2003, and I don't think that gets me
the 2.0 version of anything, does it?

Matt

No, but it's a great reason to upgrade!


--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr
MCSD, MVP, CSM
http://SteveOrr.net


"YYZ" <> wrote in message
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> On Nov 8, 12:34 pm, "Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <S...@Orr.net> wrote:
>> I suggest you use the ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard control to dramatically simplify
>> your design.
>>
>> Here's more
>> info:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...1/CuttingEdge/
>
> Thanks Steve, but I'm using .Net 2003, and I don't think that gets me
> the 2.0 version of anything, does it?
>
> Matt
>