Control directive reporting "A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or methods"

Question

Hi All,

I'm trying to build an ASP.NET project and I have a control who's source page, currently, has no markup and just a control directive:

<%@Control language="C#" CodeFile="SummaryEventFeed.ascx.cs" Inherits="SummaryEventFeedControl"%>

When I build (using msbuild or Visual Studio) it points to that line and says:

Error 240 A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or methods

There's obviously no namespace here, so the error message is quite puzzling. The codefile also doesn't specify a namespace - it's just a public partial class.

Ideas welcome.

Thanks, Tom

Answer 1

Try prefixing the namespace name to the control which you are inheriting from, like so -

Inherits="yournamespace.SummaryEventFeedControl"%>