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Asked: 2026-06-13T12:25:04+00:00

So an ASP.net project that someone else built about four years ago in Visual

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So an ASP.net project that someone else built about four years ago in Visual Studios 2008 now needs some of its hard coded values changed, and it’s my task to rebuild it. I am using visual studios 2012.

I do not have a good grasp of ASP, as this is not what I normally do. I am having issues with the following bit of (redacted) code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="True" 
CodeBehind="CourseList.aspx.cs" Inherits="ah.CourseList" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<% writeCourseList(); %> <!--Compiler complains -->
</form>
</body>
</html>

Visual studios says that “The name ‘writeCourseList’ does not exist in the current context”

I am confused, as writeCourseList is a public method in class CourseList. Also, this code must have compiled at one point since it works on the live server. CourseList class:

namespace ah{
    public partial class CourseList: System.Web.UI.Page{
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        public void writeCourseList()
        { //do stuff}
    }
}

Any help would be appreciated. Also, please feel free to advise me on how to better ask this question. Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try

    public string writeCourseList()
{
    return "this is a course list";
}

    You need to return a string from the method when you want to use inline asp.net tags.

    inline asp.net tags… sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

    But instead i would not use this classis asp style. You should use web databound controls like GridView, Repeater, ListView,DataList or a simple ListBox instead.

    For example:

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if(!IsPostBack)
     {
          listBox1.DataSource = getAllListCourses(); // f.e. a DataTable
          listBox1.DataTextField  = "TextColumn";
          listBox1.DataValueField = "IdColumn";
          listBox1.DataBind();
     }
}

    You can also add ListItems manually: 

    listBox1.Items.Add(new ListItem("Course-name","ID"));
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