Accessing Properties in masterpage from content file

I am trying to access the properties defined int a masterpage from within a content page. the properties are not showing up when I try to access them from the content page.

Anyone have any suggestions? 

MasterPage:
<%@ Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="BasePageMaster.master.vb" Inherits="Digecenter.BasePageMaster" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

MasterPage Code:
Public Partial Class BasePageMaster

Public Property PageTitle() As String

Get

Return _pageTitle

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As String)

_pageTitle = Value

End Set

End Property

End Class


Content page Html:
<%@ Register TagPrefix="iswebgrid" Namespace="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid" Assembly="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid" %>
<%@ Page CodeBehind="codebehind.aspx.vb" inherits="codebehindfilenamehere" Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" enableViewStateMac="false" MasterPageFile="~/DigecenterBasePage.Master" %>
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/MasterPages/BasePageMaster.Master" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat=server>
  --content here
</Content>

Content Page Code Behind:
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

    NOT SEEING THE PROPERTIES IN THE intelesense

    Dim s as string = Me.Masterpage.property

End Sub

Thanks in Advance!

Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:34:30 -0500 Author:

RE: Accessing Properties in masterpage from content file

Rick,

If you look closely, it seems that you have a discrepency in your locations:
Content page Html:
<%@ Page ... MasterPageFile="~/DigecenterBasePage.Master" %>
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/MasterPages/BasePageMaster.Master" %>

could that be what's confusing VS?



"Rick" wrote:


> 
> I am trying to access the properties defined int a masterpage from within a content page. the properties are not showing up when I try to access them from the content page.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions? 
> 
> MasterPage:
> <%@ Master Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="BasePageMaster.master.vb" Inherits="Digecenter.BasePageMaster" %>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
> <head runat="server">
>     <title>Untitled Page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
>     <form id="form1" runat="server">
>     <div>
>         <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
>         </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
>     </div>
>     </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> MasterPage Code:
> Public Partial Class BasePageMaster
> 
> Public Property PageTitle() As String
> 
> Get
> 
> Return _pageTitle
> 
> End Get
> 
> Set(ByVal Value As String)
> 
> _pageTitle = Value
> 
> End Set
> 
> End Property
> 
> End Class
> 
> 
> Content page Html:
> <%@ Register TagPrefix="iswebgrid" Namespace="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid" Assembly="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid" %>
> <%@ Page CodeBehind="codebehind.aspx.vb" inherits="codebehindfilenamehere" Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" enableViewStateMac="false" MasterPageFile="~/DigecenterBasePage.Master" %>
> <%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/MasterPages/BasePageMaster.Master" %>
> 
> <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat=server>
>   --content here
> </Content>
> 
> Content Page Code Behind:
> Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
> 
>     NOT SEEING THE PROPERTIES IN THE intelesense
> 
>     Dim s as string = Me.Masterpage.property
> 
> End Sub
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:16:01 -0700 Author:

RE: Accessing Properties in masterpage from content file

Hello Rick,

I have tested you sample code on my side. The content page is able to 
access the property of the master page after some small modifications of 
your codes. 
1. Attribute 'CodeBehind' in the @Page directive is no longer supported in 
ASP.NET 2.0, so I changed the 'CodeBehind' to 'CodeFile' in both 
BasePagemaster.master and codebehind.aspx.
2. In your Content page, you set the MasterPageFile in @Page directive as 
'~/DigecenterBasePage.Master'. In the meantime, you set the VirtualPath of 
@MasterType directive as '~/MasterPages/BasePageMaster.Master'. What is the 
relationship between these two master pages? If they are simply inheriting 
from System.Web.UI.MasterPage, you will get an exception: 'Unable to cast 
object of type 'ASP.digecenterbasepage_master' to type 
'ASP.masterpages_basepagemaster_master' in runtime. In my test, I change 
the former to '~/MasterPages/BasePageMaster.Master'
3. In your content page html, you references a 3rd party control: 
ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid. For convenience, I removed the line on my side. 

After I made the changes above, I build the project and finally see that 
the master property 'PageTitle' shows in the intelligence.  Please have a 
try and let me know whether it works on your side.

Sincerely,
Jialiang Ge (jialge@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Date:Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:44:39 GMT Author: