Question

How do I access a page class from another class. For example I have:

public partial class MyPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    { }
}

Why can I not access it from another class in App_Code folder?

public class MyClass
{
    public MyClass() {}
    public void DoSomething(object o)
    {
         // The following line won't compile.
         MyPage page = o as MyPage;
    }
}

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I just figured it out (thanks to Fujiy) that for some reason this is the case with website project, but is not a problem with web application project in VS. If anyone has any clues as to why, please share your thoughts. Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

I see nothing wrong with your code as posted, most likely you’ve got a namespace problem.

edit: gah, just noticed that you mentioned this was a website project. It’s been a while since I deigned to start one of those 🙂 but I believe this stems from the fact that App_Code is run-time compiled. It would take a better man than me to explain why that creates the problem, but long story short I’d just avoid website projects in general.