ASP.NET page directive STILL being overwritten in CS4?

Report · Dec 17, 2008

I've just downloaded the Studio CS4 trial and was considering upgrading from CS2/Studio 8, which I've been using for 2-3 years. I was hoping this would fix the issue I've been having with Dreamweaver 8 overwriting my ASP.NET page directives from this...
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="login.aspx.vb" Inherits="login" %>
to this...
<%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" %>

I've followed the directions in this technote, which seems to be the solution I'm after...
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16531

It does not work. It's still happening in CS4. codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked is set to true when I update the template, but the page directive above is still overwritten. Is this really a bug that's been around for 3 versions, or am I missing something?

Report · May 28, 2009

I ran into this problem. I have lots of course pages that pull data from a database using ASP.NET. I have a aspx template file that's used to update all the course pages. Each time I'd change the template, it modified the code outside of the <html> tag.

The solution was to add a comment in the content pages as in -

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="course_111.aspx.cs" Inherits="Kayak.Pages.course_111" %>
<%–’comment–%>

...

My template has -

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="course.aspx.cs" Inherits="Kayak.Pages.course" %>

no comment in the template.

The codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked isn't changed from the default "false".

Now updating the template will update all course pages and not touch the code outside the <html> tags.

Found this at http://websitebuildersresource.com/2008/11/28/195/. This post said that this was a known issue but I couldn't find the article mentioned.

Report · May 28, 2009

Slight change to my last post -

If I include the comment in the template, that gets added to a newly created page. Subsequent updates to template will not change the content page because the comment is there.

It works for me...

Report · Jun 23, 2009

You can place your @code in the head editable region, i.e.:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="form.aspx.cs" Inherits="fr_form" %>