How to make UserControl to use master page placeholders?

Question

Hello all.

There's quite weird issue and I wonder if it had ever occurred before. It looks odd that nobody had been caught by it, by Google says so.

that's what we have:

Master page

Masterpage.master

blahblagblag

User control whose page is bound to mentioned-above master page

According design, we need to define from .ascx user control

SomeControl.ascx

 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="phMaster">  // this will not work, and issue is to make it work

But how to do it, considering that user controls cannot be bound to masterpage?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't think a UserControl can work in the way you are trying t to reference it. You would have to put an intermediary aspx page with the master page set which has a Content control referencing your ContentPlaceholder and includes your user control. You can't directly reference that control by going to SomeControl.ascx you'd have to go to a page in which the control sits.