Master Page Weirdness - “Content controls have to be top-level controls in a content page or a nested master page that references a master page.”

Question

This is weird. I added a brand new Web Application project to my solution in Visual Studio 2008.

Created a master page. Made zero modifications. Created a new we

Answer 1

Your web form shouldn't have all of that markup (like the tag). Since it has a master page, you just start with the content tag. Your aspx page should look like this:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebUI._Default" MasterPageFile="~/Site1.Master" %>


   This is the body!

When you're adding a new aspx page make sure to check "select master page" in the "add new item" dialog.