I am trying to use usercontrols from a different project in my asp.net 3.5 solution?
how can I use them? what is the reference?
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I am trying to use usercontrols from a different project in my asp.net 3.5 solution?
how can I use them? what is the reference?
Typically, user controls are designed to be use within a single project. This is because user control has two parts – the markup (ascx) file and code-behind. If you compile the project into a library the the code-behind class gets packaged in the dll but not the ascx part. The mark-up (ascx) contains the actual control tree and hence w/o it user control cannot be used. So one of the solution to share user controls is to compile user control’s code into a library and copy ascx files into the target project.
But the better solution is to package user control’s markup (ascx) as embedded resource of library project and then use a custom virtual path provider to load it from the resource. See this code-project article that describes this technique.