I'm converting a large web application from VS2003 - VS2005. I right clicked 
on the web project and selected convert to web application. The conversion 
created a designer file for each .aspx file. Everywhere in the code behind 
that we are using me.[controlname]. I'm getting and error:
'[Controlname]' is not a member  'Webproject.pagename'.

What do I need to do to get around this without having to go to each page 
and add the reference to the control back into the page?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Rick,

Based on my understanding, you're migrating a VS2003 web project to VS2005 
using the Web Application Project type.

First, if you haven't read the guide on the convertion here, I recommend 
you to read it:

#Migrating a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005
http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/Migration/Migration.aspx

From the guide, in step 8: Convert to Partial Classes:

<quote>
When you migrate your project using the above steps, none of your 
code-behind page code or classes are modified. This means that the code 
should look (and work) just like it did in VS 2003. This makes it much 
easier to migrate existing code to VS 2005.

You can optionally choose to keep your code in this format. Doing so will 
require you to manually update the control field declarations within your 
code-behind file -- but everything else will work just fine in VS 2005.
</quote>

This means converting to the partial classes mode is optional, the migrated 
web application should be working fine without this. 

Please confirm if this is working correctly on your side if you don't run 
the action "Convert To Web Application".

Further down the guide, it also mentioned that:

<quote>
If for some reason the .designer.cs file doesn't have a control declaration 
added, you can manually declare it within the code-behind file of the page 
(just like you would in VS 2003). One issue we've sometimes seen reported 
are cases where a developer has specifically overriden the type of a 
Usercontrol declaration in a VS 2003 code-behind file (for example: 
MyControl1 instead of the generic UserControl base class), and the type 
isn't correctly transferred to the .designer.cs file (producing a compile 
error). If the correct user-control type declaration isn't added to the 
.designer.cs file, you can optionally just delete it from the .designer.cs 
and add it the code-behind file of the page instead. VS 2005 will then 
avoid re-adding it to the .designer.cs file (it first looks in the 
code-behind file for declarations before updating the .designer.cs file on 
changes).
</quote>


Please check if the controls you mentioned that having the issue are of 
this type: if you've specifically overridden the type of the UserControl, 
then the migration wizard will not create them in the designer file.


If you think the guide doesn't help or your project has some specific 
issues, please help me to further troubleshoot this by sending me a smaller 
but still reproducible project. Thank you for the trouble in advance.

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi Rick,

I'm writing to check the status of this post. Please feel free to let me 
know if there's anything else I can help. Thanks.


Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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