RE: Settings inaccessible due to its protection level

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I think the problem had something to do with the Projects add-in. Though I
had set it to use only one dll, and verified that it was doing that, I still
had the problem. Because I wanted to use the SchemaImporterExtension class
which would not work with the Web Projects add-in and its early defined web
reference model, I had to convert the project to a standard VS2005 web site.
When I did that, this problem with accessibility to the Settings class went
away.

Thanks,

Dale

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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


"Walter Wang [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Dale,

Would you please depict more about your project and how is the Setting
located and used? A reproducible project will be excellent.

Basically, the *.settings file is associated with custom tool
"SettingsSingleFileGenerator" and generates a strong-typed class for
various properties. It's intended to be used in the same assembly,
therefore the "internal" keyword is used on it. This means only code in the
same assembly could use it.

If you're using the Web Application Project add-on (included in VS2005 SP1
or can be installed separately), the web project should be compiled into
one assembly and this should be ok for the Settings class. However, for
default web site project mode, different webform files will be compiled
into separate assemblies and therefore they will not be able to access the
Settings class. For more information about ASP.NET compilation model, see:

#ASP.NET Compilation Overview
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178466(VS.80).aspx
ASP.NET automatically compiles your application code and any dependent
resources the first time a user requests a resource from the Web site. In
general, ASP.NET creates an assembly for each application directory (such
as App_Code) and one for the main directory.


To compile into one assembly, you could use Web Deployment Project:

#Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx
Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality
to build and deploy Web sites and Web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and
Visual Studio 2005. This add-in includes a tool to merge the assemblies
created during ASP.NET 2.0 pre-compilation, and provides a comprehensive UI
within Visual Studio 2005 to manage build configurations, merging, and
using pre-build and post-build tasks with MSBuild.


Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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