OK, a bit of a newbie, here, so I'll try not to ask too many dumb questions. Also, most of my non-DNN development is done using C#/MVC4/Razor so you can imagine my brain is a bit addled at the moment.

Anyway, I've been running a few tutorials that are floating around the interwebs and I'm seeing most of them using VB declared in the .ascx files for the skin. I don't have anything against VB personally, just more comfortable with using C#...but when I change the control language to c#, I start running into issues.

For instance, <code><%=skinpath%></code> works like a champ when vb is the control language, however, when I switch to c# I receive an error that "skinpath is not in the current context".

Is there a resource out there that shows how to write a skin in c# that utilizes the DNN objects like skinpath?

I appreciate any suggestions the community makes...

Ric

Ric,

I always say that the only dumb question in the world is the one you don't dare to ask - you'll never get an answer to it and you'll never solve the problem, so _that_ is dumb.

I think - and this is only a presumption - that you have to use VB in the skin's ascx files. I experienced quite the same effects you described, and my conclusion was that this part of DNN was not moved to C# because of compatibility issues with older skins. Maybe I am wrong, but as it worked with VB, I used VB where I needed it (and even me, I am more comfortable with C#).

Hope that helps.

@Sebastian: Which "same libraries"?

Best wishes
Michael

Richard,

"SkinPath" was the key...that's where my newbie status comes into play. Of course, C# is case sensitive, but when looking at vb all day in the case of the examples, it didn't even occur to me that the "SkinPath" variable had any specific casing to it.

Just out of curiosity, is there any resource out there that shows these variables and their appropriate casing? I've got the Host manual that I downloaded from DNN, but haven't seen anything obvious in the 1100 pages as of yet.

Thanks again,
Ric