In previous CTP's it was possible to declare a public property in a master page, and then access that property using Master.<propertyname> from the content page. IN fact, the documentation of MasterPage Class says:

 All public properties in the master page class are available to the content page's base class through the Master property, using the notation Master.PropertyName.

This no longer seems to work. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

jliberty@libertyassocaites.com 

jliberty wrote:

In previous CTP's it was possible to declare a public property in a master page, and then access that property using Master.<propertyname> from the content page. IN fact, the documentation of MasterPage Class says:  All public properties in the master page class are available to the content page's base class through the Master property, using the notation Master.PropertyName. This no longer seems to work. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

You need to add either one of these to the page:

<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="default.master" %>

<%@ MasterType TypeName="YourMasterBaseClass" %>

-Brock

I have the master type directive on a content page but cannot reference master page public items in the codebehind.

<%=Master.MyVariable%> works from the design view but

response.write(Master.MyVariable) in the codebehind

produces nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

No compilation errors. You will note I said <%=Master.MyVariable%> works on the aspx page.

I have fould it is a loading sequence issue.

If I use Private Sub PreInit rather than Load then I can access the Master variables via Master.MyVariable in the code file.

Is there any documentation where all of this is spelled out?

Is it possible to use a BasePage with a Master page? BasePage properties can be accessed directly.