I’m stumped!
We have a user control for managing account information. We use this particular control on two pages. On one page, everything works perfectly and meets our expectations. On the second page however we receive compilation errors stating that:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\lrpcentral\0e987bea\6719c8b6\App_Web_PageThatFails.aspx.f3d462c1.oi52bvii.0.cs(172): error CS0433: The type ‘xxxx_ascx’ exists in both ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\APPLICATIONNAME\0e987bea\6719c8b6\App_Web_xxxx.ascx.cdcab7d2.xbnvt2za.dll’ and ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\APPLICATIONNAME\0e987bea\6719c8b6\App_Web_eix7xllr.dll’
My problem is similar to Cyril’s but the “delete everything from Temp” is not an option for me, and Cyril’s solution does not apply since the only variable we have is contained in the designer file, which is not deployed to our production environment (we pre-compile).
After reading David’s answer I examined my directories for circular dependency and was unable to find any.
Structure:
Top Level >
Page that works
Control
Directory A >
Page that causes the error
That occurs because two different assemblies referenced in your application contain the same namespace and type, which produces ambiguity.