Question

I am really new to C#/VB as a web coding language so apologies early if this is rudimentary

I have a vendor .NET solution i need to add an .aspx page to, which I’ve managed to do, but there are missing HTML items that are placed by backend .vb file code (we have the uncompiled code as well as the site code)

so for example, Report.aspx
uncompiled

 <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="jobber.VU.Report"
 CodeFile="Report.aspx.vb" %>

 <%@ Register TagPrefix="VU" Namespace="jobber.VU.Controls"  %>

compiled

 <%@ page language="vb" autoeventwireup="false" inherits="jobber.VU.Report, 
  App_Web_report.aspx.cdcab7d2" enableEventValidation="false" %>

 <%@ Register TagPrefix="VU" Namespace="jobber.VU.Controls"  %>

the VB backend

Namespace jobber.VU
    Partial Class Report
        Inherits ActionBase

    End Class
End Namespace

How do I replicate that in just an ASPX page?

I tried this

 <%@ page language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Debug="true" %>
 <%@ Register TagPrefix="VU" Namespace="jobber.VU.Controls"  %>
 <%@ Import Namespace="jobber.VU.ActionBase"  %>
 <VU:metatags id="headers1" format="none" runat="server"></VU:metatags>

and VU.Controls comes back fine, but the ActionBase class is not executing

I also attempted a <script runat=server, but it never took off the ground

Answer 1

You can have multiple pages inherit from the same page. So if you want to duplicate the functionality of the ‘jobber.VU.Report page’, just add a new page and inherit from it.