Intellisense with web.config registration of controls

6 Sep 2006 8:59 AM

sunev

We are working on a large project and using a number of the new asp.net 2.0
features a number of third party controls.
One such feature is the global registration of controls in the web.config,
such as:

<pages>
    <controls>
        <add namespace="Project.WebControls" assembly="Project.Net2"
tagPrefix="ccA"/>
    </controls>
</pages>

This works nicely and means we do not have to add the directive to each
page, however it does mean that the intellisense in Visual Studio 2005 does
not work when editing the markup for the controls.

Do you know of anything to overcome this so intellisense will work (as it
does if the register on the page directly)?

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      Shaun Venus
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6 Sep 2006 11:47 AM

Walter Wang [MSFT]

Hi Shaun,

I just tested this feature using a simple class library and web site, and
it works correctly.

Are you using web.config in sub-folder of your web site? If so, then due bo
current Visual Studio IDE limitation, only web.config in root folder is
used during design time.

Also, you will need to compile the assembly contains custom control first
if you're referencing the project in your solution.

I hope this helps. Please feel free to post here if anything is unclear.

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (waw***@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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7 Sep 2006 12:46 PM

sunev

We have a single root project and a number of sub projects under this. I
understand that the sub projects may not allow this, but I am not seeing it
work in the root project - I have seen it work when I've got a single web
project (as a test I did this and it works OK).

I've looked for differences, but just cannot see why this would be happening.

S

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Shaun Venus
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"Walter Wang [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Shaun,
>
> I just tested this feature using a simple class library and web site, and
> it works correctly.
>
> Are you using web.config in sub-folder of your web site? If so, then due bo
> current Visual Studio IDE limitation, only web.config in root folder is
> used during design time.
>
> Also, you will need to compile the assembly contains custom control first
> if you're referencing the project in your solution.
>
> I hope this helps. Please feel free to post here if anything is unclear.
>
> Sincerely,
> Walter Wang (waw***@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>
> ==================================================
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7 Sep 2006 1:29 PM

Walter Wang [MSFT]

Hi Shaun,

Thank you for your update.

I understand that you've tested a single web project and it works. However,
I don't quite understand what do you mean by "a single root project and a
number of sub projects under this". Would you please depict more on this?
Or better, could you reproduce the issue by creating a simpler solution and
send it to me? Thank you for your understanding and effort.

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Walter Wang (waw***@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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