Hey Folks,

For the record, I'm hoping that this starts to click soon...

I've been making some progress on what I want to do.  I've got my class showing up in the DNN solution toolbox now (after I added the project which I had initially built it in), but, when I try to add it to an ascx, I don't get a good result.  In fact, I'm getting this:

Error: 2 test is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.desktopmodules_atest_atest_ascx' to type 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase'. ---> System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.desktopmodules_atest_atest_ascx' to type 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase'. at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.InjectModule(Control objPane, ModuleInfo objModule, PortalSettings PortalSettings) in C:\Projects\DotNetNuke\Library\Components\Skins\Skin.vb:line 492 --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Now, this class is working when I run the project in standalone mode with the class on an ascx control on the default page, (not within the DNN instance), but when I add the project to the DNN solution, then try to drop the class onto a new ascx control within the desktop modules directory, I get the error shown above...

Any thoughts, tips, fixes would be appreciated.

Brian

Bill,

To make sure I'm correctly understand what you're saying, my public class declaration of

public class NCAABasketballTeamsByConference : WebControl

should be changed to

public class NCAABasketballTeamsByConference : DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase

Am I understanding you correctly?

Brian
(who hates having to learn DNN and C# and asp.net simultaneously after 5 years of vb.net desktop and SQL Server DB design work)

I'm getting the exact same problem and adding "DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase" isn't helping.

Any ideas from anyone?