Hi all DNN-pros

Why is there a second codebehindfile to every .ascx file on my Vista VS2005 machine ? I have manually set up the dotnetnuke installation files but when adding a module I have used the modul kit installed in the VS2005 as a template of some kind ... the templates that gets installed when installing the .vsi kit ... but then I get the file DesktopModules/ModuleName1/Settings.ascx  and thats normal BUT behind that file there is 2 files:

• Settings.ascx.designer.vb
• Settings.ascx.vb

What is this all about? What do you use the Settings.ascx.designer.vb file to ?

/Johan

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Here is an excerpt from the article with the key points. (Copied here so if someone else has the question in the future they may find it more easily by searching the forums)

"What is different between VS 2003 and VS 2005 is that Visual Studio no longer injects its tool-specific wire-up code in the developer's code-behind file.  Instead, it takes advantage of a new language feature in C# and VB called "partial types" (or partial classes) to split the code-behind implementation across two files.  One of these partial class files is the developer-owned code-behind file that contains developer-written event-handlers and code for the page.  The other partial class file is then a tool-generated/maintained file that contains the protected control field declarations and the other design-time code that Visual Studio requires.  The benefit of splitting them out into two separate files at design-time is that it ensures that the code that VS creates and maintains never interferes (or deletes) code that a developer writes.  At compile-time, these files are compiled together and generate a single code-behind class."