I am currently developing a website for a Berkeley Club in Visual Studio 2010 Prof. Ed. using Asp.net and Dotnetnuke v6. This will be my second time encountering this specific problem/hassle. I created a new control (ascx file) and have been working on it some. I wanted to add the Dotnetnuke htmleditor since its sick so added the required code. Namely...
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TextEditor" Src="~/controls/TextEditor.ascx"%>
<dnn:TextEditor ID="EmailContent" runat="server" Height="400px" Width="100%" />
I also had to change the ascs.designer.cs file so that instead of reading
protected global::System.Web.UI.UserControl EmailContent;
it read like
protected global::DotNetNuke.UI.UserControls.TextEditor EmailContent;
This makes it use the DNN TextEditor which is what I want. The problem is that whenever VS uses the designer to autogenerate code it overwrites the bottom line with the top line. This means every time I change the ascx file I have to change the designer again. This has gotten annoying, but I have not been able to find a way to fix it. Any ideas on how to disable the VS designer for specific controls or for segments of code in a autogenerated designer file?
Put the EmailContent declaration in the ascx.cs file, and remove it from the ascx.designer.cs file. This will prevent the designer from messing up the type.
This goes to ascx.cs:
protected global::DotNetNuke.UI.UserControls.TextEditor EmailContent;