I have no idea why this won't work but I have a function on a master page that gets the logged in user and then displays information about that user on the master page. I want to be able to pass one property (the user Role to the other pages to use for logic flow. I can't seem to get the content pages to recognize the property.
The error message is
'System.Web.UI.MasterPage' does not contain a definition for 'Role' and no extension method 'Role' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Web.UI.MasterPage' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)'
Any ideas?
public partial class SiteMaster : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
{
private string role = "Manager";
public string Role
{
get
{
return role;
}
set
{
role = value;
}
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
...get current logged in user data and display appropriate fields in the master page.
}
}
Content Page
<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Portal.aspx.cs" Inherits="Portal" ClientIDMode="AutoID" %>
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/Site.Master" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="asp" %>
content page.cs
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
string testRole = Master.Role;
}
}
Best Answer
The "Master" property on Page returns the type System.Web.UI.MasterPage. You need to cast it to your specific type (SiteMaster) before you can call that class's functions.