Question

My hosted website is not working, and is giving an error.

**The name 'General' does not exist in the current context**

Line 19:     if (passedArgument == "true")
Line 20:     {
Line 21:         General.Session.UserID = "";
Line 22:         General.Session.UserName = "";
Line 23:         General.Session.ShoppingCart = null

General is, as you can see, a namespace containing the class Session.

               namespace General
  {
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Session
/// </summary>
public class Session
{
    public Session()
    {
    }

My service provider tells me I should check my code, but it’s working just fine on my local machine. Why is it not finding the namespace, and generating the error?

Answer 1

Usually, this means that you are running in a sub-directory (i.e. not the site-root), and that directory is not marked as an application in IIS.

Basically, App_Code is resolved relative to the nearest application (or the root otherwise). So if your app is at /someapp, then instead of looking in /someapp/App_Code, it is looking in /App_Code. Where your files aren’t.

If this is the case, mark the folder as an application in IIS. This varies between IIS versions, but the end-result is that the folder icon should display a cog in IIS.