Interdev - wacky page object problem

[GinaMaus]

Anyone out there still using Page Objects in Visual Interdev 6.0? I am working on an ASP project that uses Page Objects. For example, from somepage.asp, I want to be able to call someotherpage.execute.somefunction.

Here is the problem. When I right-click on the page object to show the properties, I am supposed to see three tabs on the properties dialog: methods, properties, and references. However, when I do it, I only see TWO tabs, methods and properties. The references tab is MISSING! Therefore, since I don't have a references tab, I can't create any references to other pages, which of course means that the page objects are useless.

I tried installing Visual Studio 6.0 service pack 5 but that didn't help. (Service pack 6 is actually the latest, but doesn't update Interdev.) Has anyone seen this problem before? I haven't found any similar problems in MSDN. Maybe there's a setting somewhere that I haven't thought of? Alternately, is there a way that I can add the references by hand, while viewing the control as text?

 

[GinaMaus]

It turns out that I had my project configured incorrectly. If you add a new file using "File->New File", a page object cannot be added to it. The file has to be part of the project. If you instead add a new file by using "Project->Add Item", then page objects function correctly. According to the help guy at Microsoft, this behavior is by design, albeit very confusing to me.