Question

I have ASP.net website. In App_Code folder I have class that has extension methods. When running this site from visual studio, everything works. However on my IIS 7 server, i received the following error:

CS1061: ‘System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader’ does not contain a definition for ‘SafeGetString’ and no extension method ‘SafeGetString’ accepting a first argument of type ‘System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

But the file containing this extention methods is in App_Code folder. Am I missing something important?

ExtentionMethods Class:

public static class ExtentionMethods
{
    public static string SafeGetString(this SqlDataReader reader, int colIndex)
    {
        if (!reader.IsDBNull(colIndex))
            return reader.GetString(colIndex);
        return "NULL VALUE";
    }

    public static int SafeGetInt32(this SqlDataReader reader, int colIndex)
    {
        if (!reader.IsDBNull(colIndex))
            return reader.GetInt32(colIndex);
        return -1;
    }

    public static DateTime SafeGetDateTime(this SqlDataReader reader, int colIndex)
    {
        if (!reader.IsDBNull(colIndex))
        {
            try
            {
            }
            catch
            {
                return new DateTime(1800, 1, 1);
            }
        }
        return new DateTime(1800, 1, 1);
    }
}

Answer 1

Thanks to @AnthonyWJones: How come classes in subfolders in my App_Code folder are not being found correctly?

You need to add codeSubDirectories to your compilation element in web.config

<configuration>
    <system.web>
      <compilation>
         <codeSubDirectories>
           <add directoryName="Extensions"/>
         </codeSubDirectories>
      </compilation>
   </system.web>
</configuration>