Hi.

I am developing on VS 2010/C#, DNN 6.1.4 and I used Chris Hammond's development template.

I used the example code in the Settings control to create my own custom setting.

I have created other controls in this project (3 of them). It so happens that I do not use the default View or Edit controls. In DNN I created 3 pages and each page hosts one of the 3 controls that I made. (If you add the module to a page, it will put all the controls that you have created in your project on the page. I just deleted the extra controls from each page, but I left the view control on the page with my main control in order to access the settings page.)

Question 1)
How can I/do I retrieve the setting in my controls?

Here is an example of retrieving a setting from the view control:
if(Settings.Contains("Setting1"))
txtSetting1.Text = Settings["Setting1"].ToString();


If I try to use this code elsewhere in the project, I get this:
'DotNetNuke.Modules.MyProjectName.Settings' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable'

Question 2)
Can I expect my other controls to "see" settings on other pages where there are controls from the same project?

this might be helpful.

http://chriscant.phdcc.com/2008/05/dn...

You can set/acces module scope settings or page/module settings.

Also, you should be able to access txtSetting1.Text = Settings["Setting1"].ToString();

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Steven Webster
Manager, Community Platform
F5 Networks, DevCentral