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I used to have an embedded user control in an ASP.NET web site which was working fine. But later I converted the web site to a Web Application after that when I refer to the user control it give an error.
System.Web.HttpException was unhandled by user code
Message=The file ‘/Controls/CustomControls.dll/TestCustomControl.ascx’ does not exist.
I verified dll is in the correct place and build action of TestCustomControl.ascx is set to “Embedded Resource”.
This user control is embedded to the dll by setting it’s property Build Action to Embedded Resource.
The problem was with my virtual path provider. I had to register the virtual path provider in “Application_Start” method in Global.asax. In my working web site it was done in AssemblyResourceProvider in App_Code. When converting Web site to Web App since theres no App_Code in web app this whole code was missing.