Error Creating Control on a Web Form 1

[Tom2]

Hi,

I've just installed the Gold release of Visual Studio .NET on a clean install of Windows XP.

I've got some code from beta 2 and have imported it from sourcesafe. It all compiles fine but when I open a web form, all the controls (server side) come up with the message saying "Error Creating Control" on them.

I've tried making a new web form and adding it to the solution but I've tried adding a few controls (DropDownList and CrystalReportViewer) and both come up with the same error on them.

Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jfrost10]

Hey Tom,

hmmm...so even if you create a brand new web form, and add brand new controls to it, you still get an error saying that they can't be created?

When you up-graded to the Gold vs.net, you upgraded to the newer version of the .net framework too, right?

Anothr thing to try might be creating a new project and adding the old web forms to that, and see if it works (instead of creating a new webform for the old project).

I'm guessing that the controls from Beta 2 are different than the release of vs.net, so you might be having some problems there as well. I ran into a similar problem, and ehre's what I did to fix it:

1. Delte the problem control from the web form, but not the code for it in the code behind.
2. Create a new control on the form, and re-name it to the control that you just deleted.

That worked for me (still accessed the same control-calls, but it just had an updated version of hte control that it liked.

A few things to look at anyway. Let me know if I can help further.


Jack

 

[Tom2]

Hi,

I made a new project (new solution as well) and when I made a new web form in the new project, everything worked fine.

I was even able to "Add an Exisiting File" (one of the ones that didn't work in the project I imported from Visual Source Safe) and the old web form working fine as well.

I guess it's just going to take some time to add each existing file to a new project/solution.

Thanks for the help.