Hi.

I am trying to make a private assemby module and I have used the BlankModule guide made by Vladan Strigo. But I can not get a hold of webcontrols inside my user control. Here is an example.

I have a control settings.ascx and settings.ascx.cs, I have added them to my like standard user controls, and then modified them according to the DNN_Startup Kit with the control inheriting from ModuleSettingsBase like this:

namespace PromSys.Modules.ViewPromSysPublishStatic
{
    partial class Settings : ModuleSettingsBase
    {
..............

But then I can not get a reference to my controls on settings.ascx. Like if add a control to mye ascx page like this <asp:TextBox id="myTb"  runa="server" /> then I cannot use this code in my cs page

string myText = myTb.Text;

This vill give me a compile error, saying myTb does not exist.

And if I try

TextBox myNewTb = (TextBox)Page.FindControl("myTb");

It will give me an null Exception.

So how do I use webcontrols at the same time as I use ModuleSettingsBase? Or do I use something else then ModuleSettingsBase?

Best regards
Vidar

Well. Yes I use WAP.

If I change the Inherit statement to Page instead of ModuleSetitngsBase, it works fine, so I think the problem lies with ModuleSettingsBase, or with some reference. If I use the same files inside the DotNetNuke main project (not a PA) then I can access the controls. So there has to be a link missing in my web application project, that is present in the dotnetnuke website.

Best regards
Vidar.

Hello, Vidar,

well, personally I am trying to create module from PA at the moment and I use WAP. My module doesn't need settings page, but it has edit.ascx. View and Edit module classes inherits from DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase. I include only DotNetNuke.dll, but that's because I do not need something in addition.

My module loads and I am able to navigate from View to Edit page, but unfortunately some exception occure somewhere in DAL..

I hope this will be usefull to you.