Question

I’ve got two files in the same directory, an ascx file and an ascx.cs file with a C# class defined inside of it.

This is the code in my .ascx file

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Test.ascx.cs" 
Inherits="SITE.UI.Controls.Test" %>

And this is the code in Test.ascx.cs:

using System;
using System.Web.UI;

namespace SITE.UI.Controls
{
    public partial class Test : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {


    }
}

However whenever I try and build the site I always get this error:

Error 1 Could not load type ‘SITE.UI.Controls.Test’

I’m sure I must be doing something obviously wrong but after over an hour of thrashing I’m getting nowhere . . .

Answer 1

Go into the Web Project properties -> Build settings and change the Output Path to bin\

If that don’t work, check this post. Here are a lot of solutions for this problem.

Let me know it when it’s fixed or not 🙂