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Asked: 2026-05-17T00:39:39+00:00

I am developing a publishing portal in SharePoint. The page layouts, master pages are

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I am developing a publishing portal in SharePoint. The page layouts, master pages are designed using Visual Studio and I deploy the page layouts into the content database using wspbuilder.

I have a requirement wherein I have to access the controls of the page layout in code behind and assign or get values to/from the controls. But, the VS intellisense never shows the controls used in my page layout. What should I do in order to access the controls using code behind?

Is there any workaround for this?

Regards,
Raghuraman.V

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  1. Editorial Team

    I guess that you have the page layouts and the code-behind in two different projects or at least in two different locations. You can also use ‘real’ code-behind pages in SharePoint that are side-by-side with the ASPX file so that you do not have to re-declare the controls at all.

    To do so you can create the Visual Studio project for the WSP package as an
    “ASP.NET Web Application”, create ASPX pages with code-behind files side-by-side and use WSP
    Builder to remove the C# files from the package (the code is still compiled into the assembly and deploy with it). The trick works because WSP Builder can be
    configured with a local configuration file within the Visual Studio project to remove certain file
    types.

    Here the local WSPBuilder.exe.config file:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
 <appSettings>
  <add key="Excludefiletypes" value="cs" />
 </appSettings>
</configuration>
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