App_Code folder issues

Question

So I\'m having a really weird issue with my App_Code folder on a new website I\'m designing.

I have a basic class inside of a namespace in the App_Code folder. Ev

Answer 1

If your application is a Web Application project rather than a Web Site project, the code files should not be in the App_Code folder (stupid design, I know). Create a new folder called code or something and put them in there.

It caused me all sorts of problems when I upgraded a bunch of old .Net web sites to application projects.

Answer 2

For those that follow...I had this same set of issues but it was caused because I named a class in App_Code, 'HTML'. Took a long while to figure out that it was just a name conflict because the compiler wasn't being very helpful about telling me what the problem was.

Answer 3

This just happened to me and the solution was that App_Code (and App_Data) were not put in the root of the server, but in a subfolder that held everything else. Must be in root!

Answer 4

Depending on how you publish the site, it won't look in App_Code, it'll look for a DLL in the Bin folder that contains the class instead. How did you transfer your website to the server?

Answer 5

I have noticed a mismatch sometimes between the IDE parser and the compiler whenever a compile-time error occurs in a referenced assembly or code file. In that circumstance the IDE will correctly identify the types and provide full support for them, but since the compiler was unable to create the referenced objects, it will complain that the referenced objects don't exist.

Now I don't want to go accusing anybody of anything—this is just a guess—but you should probably make sure there are not any errors in your referenced code file.

Answer 6

The problem that your classes are not compiled, You'll solve this issue simply by going to the properties of any class in the App_Code folder and change it's 'Build Action' property from "Content" to "Compile"