Error when trying to access User Control

[ticars]

I'm getting a weird error when trying to access a user control from
within a base page during runtime. Here's what I have:

I have a master page with a user control on it. I then have a few
webforms that provide content to the master page. All of these
webforms inherit from the same basepage which I created. Within that
base page I'm attempting to access the user control. When I try to
execute the code, it gives me an error:

"CS0246: The type or namespace name 'UserControls_MyControl' could not
be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

at the point that I declare a variable of the type
UserControls_MyControl.

But during design time, it has no problem finding that class (it
doesn't show as an error and the intellisense comes up). Does anyone
know what I'm missing here???

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

is this in 2005?

You need to add a @Reference directive

<%@ Reference Control="yourcontrol.ascx" %>

Karl

 

[ticars]

Yes, it is