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Having led Thailand's first medical mission last month to cyclone-ravaged Burma (Myanmar), Pichit Siriwan, a doctor, was on standby for another two-week tour. But last week he got word that Burmese authorities no longer needed the services of his 30-person team.
The notice came as part of a broad drawdown of Asian medics in the disaster zone – another entry, perhaps, in the ledger of international outrage against a junta whose deep suspicion of foreign influence has slowed aid efforts since a May 2-3 cyclone killed tens of thousands of people.
For weeks, aid agencies have warned of the threat of disease to survivors and called for greater international assistance in affected areas, which are under tight military control.
But another explanation for the exodus of Asian doctors, whose primary role was in temporary camps, may be the shifting nature of the disaster.
As more people return to their shattered communities, aid workers are trying to put in place village-level systems that can offer preventive primary care and screen the population for any epidemic outbreaks.
These rely more on local volunteers and mobile clinics than on hospitals and foreign doctors, who are usually primed to treat trauma patients.
"We were told that we're no longer needed.... I think that they need help, but in the right way," says Dr. Pichit, a physician at Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok and a member of the Thai Red Cross.
Healthcare shortages
Aid agencies say that cyclone-affected areas are reporting cases of various diseases, as well as mental trauma from the tragedy.
But aside from the emotional trauma, all these conditions were long prevalent in the Irrawaddy Delta and elsewhere in Burma, a grindingly poor and insurgent-racked country that spends a minuscule proportion of its income on healthcare.
In Laputta, a delta township of roughly 350,000 people, the main hospital is said to have only one fully qualified doctor.
Last week, the UN warned of a shortage of trained midwives and clean facilities for tens of thousands of pregnant women in the delta. William Ryan, a spokesperson for the UN Population Fund, told reporters that health kits designed for safe deliveries were being sent via Burma's Ministry of Health to affected areas.
Burma's maternal mortality rate of 380 per 100,000 live births is four times higher than that of neighboring Thailand.
Dispersed survivors hard to reach
Aid workers say the closure of displacement camps in the delta, which international human rights groups have criticized as forced relocation, has added to the urgency of rebuilding local health networks. The dispersal of survivors to remote areas where water and food supplies are uncertain is stretching local medical personnel, whose numbers were already depleted by the tragedy.
But aid workers haven't received reports of any major disease outbreaks, such as cholera and measles, as many had originally warned.
Infrastructure in the delta also took a hit. In a preliminary assessment, the World Health Organization said last month that about half of rural health centers and 20 percent of hospitals had suffered cyclone damage, with many losing their roofs to the storm and a tidal surge.
Aid agencies are hoping to get a clearer picture of short- and long-term needs, including the provision of health services, once a survey team of 250 UN and Association of Southeast Asian Nations experts currently working with Burmese counterparts returns from the delta next week. They are due to present their findings on June 24.
"If there are challenges, they will be in the villages," says John Sparrow, a spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which plans to set up 200 small health centers that can offer preventive care and basic first aid. Burma's Red Cross has about 10,000 volunteers in the delta, according to the IFRC.
Over the past two years, Merlin, a British medical charity, had trained and equipped more than 500 community health volunteers in the delta and had begun to scale down its program before the cyclone, says Jacqueline Koch, a spokesperson currently in Laputta.
At least 80 volunteers died in the disaster and hundreds more are still missing. Merlin is now helping to repair health facilities and is operating mobile clinics, including one on a specially equipped boat, that have treated about 10,000 patients.
Inured to government neglect
Such responses are common in international emergencies. But most ordinary Burmese expect virtually no public services and are reliant on their own families and communities for support, say aid workers and foreign observers.
The junta's piecemeal response fits a pattern of neglect that has inured many people to its shortcomings, while an outflow of private aid, at least until recently, has helped tide over some of those left destitute by the storm.
"Even before the cyclone, there were chronic shortages.... We're trying to fill the gap for medical care," says Osamu Kunii, head of health and nutrition in Burma for Unicef, which is supplying nutrition supplements, vaccines, water purification kits, and other health supplies in the delta.
"Most of the affected people are now returning to the villages. It's quite difficult for us to get access" to these far-flung areas, Mr. Osamu adds.
Burmese authorities have told aid agencies that doctors and nurses from other parts of the country are being sent to the delta, though it's unclear whether these are mobile teams or short-term replacements. Nor is there any national plan yet for rebuilding wrecked clinics and hospitals.
Given these acute shortages, the decision to send away Asian doctors seems perverse, even if their original deployment was in an emergency capacity, says a Western diplomat in Bangkok.
But it fits the junta's pattern of asserting that the crisis is over and that villagers must go back to rebuild their houses and farms, whatever the state of the health system.
Pichit, the doctor, says that his team was grateful for the opportunity to work in Burma, where they treated 3,700 patients during their two-week stay. "I think many of the doctors were willing to help more, especially with the children. But it's their country," he says.


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Two Fall Favorites: Quilt Shows and Leaf Peeping
The photo I got about the New Albin quilt show features cow quilts, based on the book by Mel McFarland and Mary Lou Weideman book: Out of the Box with Easy Blocks. You may remember when Mel brought samples from the book to my parents' house, or when everyone was stitching them at our Lake Tahoe retreat. The variety is endless (and often hilarious). Looks like the quilters of New Albin have caught cow-fever, but there will be other quilts, as well: this is the show's fifth year and in years past they've had as many as 200 quilts.
The show will be held int he New Albin Community Center on October 11 to 13 (Friday, 4 to 7pm; Saturday, 10 am. to 5 pm; and Sunday, 12 to 4 pm).


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Biblical value of pi
The Bible seems to claim that the value of π (pi) is 3.
While some atheists like to cite this as a demonstration against strict Biblical literalists, as we could certainly expect greater precision if the words of the Bible come directly from a god, the argument tends to be viewed as trivial. This argument is certainly vastly overshadowed by the wealth of other errors, contradictions, ambiguities and atrocities contained in the Bible.
It is also worth noting that the cubit itself was an inherently ambiguous unit, being based on the length of the human forearm. Our ancient friends simply did not possess the accuracy of measurement that we do today.
Relevant verses[edit]
1 Kings 7:23 says:
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
An almost identical passage in 2 Chronicles 4:2 says:
2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Atheists sometimes use this passage to demonstrate that the Bible contains a mathematical error, despite the fact that it is supposedly divinely inspired and inerrant. Since the circumference of a circle is π times its diameter, a circular sea could only be ten cubits across and thirty cubits around if π = 30 cubits ÷ 10 cubits = 3, rather than the true value 3.14159265....
Apologetic response[edit]
Unfortunately, this claim is easily refuted in several different ways:
- The Bible doesn't claim that the sea was a perfect circle, only that it was "round"; it could have been slightly ellipical and 10 cubits was its longer dimension.
- The 30 cubit measurement may have been the interior circumference while 10 cubits was the diameter from one outside edge to the other. That is, the thickness of the "brim" accounts for the discrepancy.
- The diameter of a circle with circumference 30 cubits would be approximately 9.55 cubits, which rounds to 10 cubits.
- If the sea was bowl-shaped, then the measuring line may have been wrapped around at a position lower than the brim, thus encircling a smaller circumference than that implied by the brim-to-brim measurement.
- More generally, the passage only implies the wrong value for π if you assume (probably unwisely) that the numbers given are accurate to more than two significant figures (i.e., that they equal 10.0 and 30.0, respectively, when rounded to the nearest tenth). Otherwise, there is quite a large range of possible values implied. If the numbers are only accurate to the nearest unit — surely an acceptable assumption — the implied value could be anything from 2.81 (≈29.5/10.499) to 3.21 (≈30.499/9.5), a range that clearly contains the true value of π. (In other words, the measurements can both be correct, and the shape perfectly circular, if the numbers are simply being reported to the nearest unit.)
External links[edit]
- Atheist Debates, The Bible Doesn't Say That!, Discussion of pi being 3.


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We hear the term "bonding" so often in modern culture that it's easy to minimize its importance and impact. But the bond between parents and children is so critical that immediately after delivering a baby, barring complications, a mother will be given some time to spend holding, stroking and looking at her baby. During this sensitive period when the newborn is very alert and responsive, the very first exchanges of touch, eye contact and sounds between a mother will occur; these first interactions are all part of the bonding process.
Many of the basic core emotions you feel for your child will begin during the period right after birth. Watching your baby look back at you, mirroring your facial expressions and following your movements, you will feel a wonderful surge of awe, protectiveness, and limitless love. This initiates what is called the attachment process. Moms who are sedated or who have babies requiring immediate medical attention may not be able to spend this time but should not worry. This will have no long-term repercussions on their relationship since bonding has no time limit. Once your baby is stable and you have recovered from the stress of labor, you will have this opportunity and achieve the same heightened connection.
Parents have an active role in the infant's state regulation, by alternately offering stimulation or soothing to lengthen the social interaction. Likewise, the parents are regulated by the baby's signals, responding, for instance with a bottle or breast to answer cries of hunger. These interactions comprise a system directed toward developing the infant's normal physiologic homeostasis and physical growth. This also forms the foundation for the budding relationship between parent and child. Your baby learns that you as the primary caregiver can alleviate her stress or tension by feeding and shows this preference by calming down quicker for the mom or dad than for a stranger. In turn, this gives Mom a sense of validation and strong connection with her infant. Breastfeeding is a wonderful means by which mothers feel fulfillment and joy from the physical and emotional connection they experience while nursing. These warm feelings are augmented by the release of the hormone prolactin, producing relaxation and the hormone oxytocin, which promotes the sense of love and attachment between mother and infant.
Babies learn basic trust when they realize that their urgent needs are met. The presence of an adult who provides consistency creates the scenario for a secure attachment. Studies show that infants who are consistently picked up and held in response to distress cry less at 1 year and show less aggressive behavior at 2 years.
By the age of 2 months, infants have their first voluntary social smiles and their amount of eye contact increases, marking a change in the parent-child bonding and also giving the parents a sense of being loved back. The baby interacts with increasing sophistication and range, expressing varied emotions of joy, anger, fear, interest and surprise by different facial expressions. When interacting with a trusted adult, the infant and the caregiver have matching expressions about 30% of the time; the eye-widening, laughing and lip-puckering rises and falls together. If the parent turns away, the baby leans forward and reaches out to get the adult involved again. Infants of depressed parents have a different pattern and spend noticeably less time in coordinated movement with their parents, and make less effort to re-engage. They show sadness, apathy and a loss of energy when the parents are not available. This face- to- face behavior demonstrates a baby's ability to share emotion and expectation from the relationships, which is the initial step in communication.
Babies 6-12 months old show advances in cognitive understanding and communication ability, with new tensions around themes of attachment and separation. Babies look back and forth between a stranger and a parent, as if to contrast a familiar versus an unfamiliar, and may cling or cry. At the same time, there is an emergence of asserting independence; hence, they attempt self-feeding and refuse to take the spoon from the caregiver. This is when temper tantrums arise as the desire for autonomy comes into conflict with parental control.
The unique emotional relationship that forms between you and your baby is key to him feeling safe, and also influences your child's social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. A secure bond ensures that your baby will have a firm foundation for life, which includes a healthy sense of self-awareness, eagerness to explore and learn, and trust and respect for others. When babies develop a secure attachment bond, they are better able to enjoy interacting with others, develop confidence, handle disappointment, loss or stress, form mature intimate relationships and maintain emotional balance.
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The CEO for Qatar Airways says the airline won't take delivery of its Boeing Co. 787 until a problem with the Dreamliner's engine is fixed, reports Reuters.
U.S. aviation regulators have ordered inspections every 90 days of the General Electric GEnx engines that power some 787s and all 747-8s. A flaw in the GEnx engine shaft caused a failure in a 787 in July. Ultrasound inspections of 787 GEnx engines found one more with a similar flaw.
Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board said that an engine failure in Shanghai on an 747-8 with GEnx engines was not caused by the same problem. Aviation officials are still looking into that incident.
UPDATE: General Electric will call for additional inspections of GEnx engines used on 787s and 747s, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The damage sustained by the 747-8 in Shanghai was in a different area of the engine from where cracks were discovered previously, prompting GE to call for a new round of inspections.
Dreamliner customers can choose between GE and Rolls-Royce engines on the 787. Qatar has ordered 30 787s with GEnx engines and has options for another 30.
Qatar had expected its first 787 in August. CEO Akbar Al Baker slammed Boeing earlier this week over delays.
On Tuesday, Al Baker told Reuters: "We have informed Boeing that we will not take delivery until the 787s have the new modified shaft."
Another 787 delivery that has been closely watched is the handover of the first Dreamliner assembled at Boeing's North Charleston, S.C. factory. The delivery to Air India has been postponed several times due to the airline's own troubles with financing and a pilot's strike. Most recently, delivery had been anticipated for last week.
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney was in Charleston yesterday for a business conference. He punted the delivery question back to Air India, telling The Post and Courier that delivery is down to a matter of the airline and Indian government sorting things out.
Air India already took delivery of two 787s. The deliveries took place in South Carolina but the aircraft were assembled at Boeing's Everett facility.
McNerney also suggested further potential for Boeing work in North Charleston, telling the publication that growth will come there as the company grows.
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Subject: Third Party Agreements
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UMUC enters into agreements with third parties ("Third Party Agreements"). This Policy provides the process that UMUC employees must use when engaging in discussions which may result in Third Party Agreements, including agreements that will be signed directly by UMUC or through the USM Foundation or the UMUC Foundation.
- Third Party Agreements
Third Party Agreements include agreements, contracts, grants (including grant applications and proposal submissions), memoranda of understanding and memoranda of agreement. They generally result from the following relationships between UMUC and a third party:
- Where UMUC purchases or otherwise acquires items, whether or not through procurements;
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- Academic partnerships and collaborations, including articulations with other educational institutions or organizations or teaming agreements.
- Before entering into discussions which may result in a Third Party Agreement, UMUC employees shall obtain authorization from the President, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Chief Business Officer, Senior Vice President of Overseas Operations, or the Senior Vice President of Partnerships, Marketing, and Enrollment Management, or designee, as applicable.
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Generally, employees may not sign agreements that obligate UMUC. The following UMUC employees have signature authority to enter into Third Party Agreements.
- For purchases or other acquisitions, including, but not limited to Procurements, the Assistant Vice President for Procurement and the Assistant Vice President for Strategic Contracting have authority to sign Third Party Agreements which bind UMUC. Additional information regarding procurements and other purchasing of goods is in UMUC Policy 367.00—UMUC Policy on Signature Authority.
- Contracts, including modifications, with a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces for the Overseas Divisions shall be signed by the President or Senior Vice President of Overseas Operations.
- For all other Third Party Agreements, the President, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chief Business Officer, Senior Vice President of Overseas Operations, the Senior Vice President of Military Partnerships, or the Senior Vice President of Strategic Enrollment Management, or their designees have the authority to sign on behalf of UMUC.
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A year or so ago, a friend of mine purchased a home in the Des Moines area.
When I first visited his home, my first reaction was that it was just run down. The carpets looked worn. The cabinets looked very beat-up. The appliances looked straight out of the 1970s.
The main floor was liveable, but the basement and upstairs looked fairly gutted, as though the previous owners had just used the spaces for storage and nothing else.
It didn't present itself well and because of that my friend got a great deal on the house. He paid a very low amount given the house's location and access to nearby services.
However, with some time and labor over the next few years, the house is going to slowly turn into a gem. In fact, it's improving with each visit. He's replacing carpets. He's installing drywall. He's doing landscaping.
Bit by bit, this seemingly ramshackle house is turning into something beautiful. And valuable.
Does he already know how to do this stuff? No, not really. He just has a big handful of do-it-yourself books and a pretty nice set of tools out in the garage. He also knows that if he messes something up, it's not a big deal. He can just re-do it.
Of course, he's not tackling anything that's too frightening. If he messes up installing a carpet, it's not a big deal. If he messes up alterations on the foundation, that could cause major problems. Thus, he's avoiding things that could cause permanent expensive damage to the home itself. That's far outside what he feels confident doing.
There are a lot of benefits from this approach.
First, he has an ongoing project to fill up his spare time. There isn't a bored evening for him. There's always a piece of drywall to put up, a carpet to install, a piece of landscaping to work on. He has tasks aplenty to fill his time.
Second, he's drastically increasing the value of his home at little cost. He's not really investing a lot of money into what he's doing, but the value of his home is going up significantly. He'll likely be able to sell the home for more than double his purchase price, but he will have put very little money into the situation.
Finally, most of the stuff he's doing does not affect his living space. His plan is to finish the basement, turn that into living quarters for a while as he finishes the main floor, and then return to the main floor as his primary living quarters while he works on the upstairs. No matter what, he'll have space for guests and plenty of room for his own living needs.
This is an enormous success for my friend. You can do the same thing if you're shopping for a home. Just have a little courage when it comes to home improvement tasks and be willing to accept a mess in parts of your home for a while and you can end up paying a low price for what will become a very nice home.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.


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The problem was discovered when the heating system was shut down for the installation of a district heating system, the Swedish news agency TT reported.
It turned out that the coffee machine was hooked up to the heating unit, a closed system which pumps water between the radiators, instead of the drinking water. The radiators simply refilled automatically as staff made coffee with heating system water.
"As the coffee is black and the radiator water is a bit brown, then we haven't noticed the difference," said Capt. Catharina Bergsell, information officer at the F 17 squadron.
It was unclear why the machine was connected to the heating system and the matter will be investigated. Had the radiator not been switched off, the problem would most likely not have come to light.
"No one had a clue about this until the water was turned off. Had that not happened, I reckon it would not have been noticed until there had been a change of supplier or some such," Bergsell said.
Staff at the base will undergo tests for potential contamination, but there have been no reports of personnel falling ill.


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May 21, 2009 05:06 PM|aazizorg|LINK
I'm having an issue where I want to be able to reference the class of a UserControl in a page, like this
FooControl foo = (FooControl) LoadControl("~/controls/FooControl.ascx"); foo.Bar= "Bazbazbaz"; this.Controls.Add(foo);
Where FooControl is a UserControl in the folder "controls". So far I have figured the following out:
1) You must use the @Reference directive at the top of the markup page for each control you want to reference this way (adding an entry in web.config/system.web/pages/controls won't work)
2) You don't need to have the @Register directive or an instance of the control on the page.
3) The control needs to have a "ClassName" attribute defined in it's @Control tag. For inline controls, this is already done. For code-behind, you have to add that to the tag in the ascx file (I've tested it)
4) You can't do this from a code-behind file. It just doesn't work, and complains it can't find the class FooControl ("Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'FooControl' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)")
Point 4 is what I'm trying to figure out. I can't put the control in declaritively in the mark-up, and I don't want to have an interface for every control I need. I haven't been able to find any answers for this question, except maybe one article that I
read that said "you can't use code-behind if you want to do this". I'm hoping to get to the bottom of this. I'm hoping some expert out there can give me an answer and tell me a solution. Or at least a definite answer. And if this isn't possible.
Why not? Thanks,
Anthony Aziz
May 21, 2009 10:20 PM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
That code should work. If you are not using the type FooControl using the exact namespace and class path (I guess you would call it), then you need to be sure that at the top of the code file, you import the namespace.
For example, if your control path is "~/controls/FooControl.ascx" and your project namespace is Project, then instead of:
FooControl foo = etc.
you must write
Project.controls.FooControl foo = etc.
unless at the top, you include that namespace, like in C# writing:
using Project.controls;
granted, this will only work if you did not change the code-behinds namespace, as Visual Studio automatically gives it the namespace based upon Project name and the folder path to where you had it create the control.
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May 22, 2009 07:21 AM|booler|LINK
This is caused by changes in the ASP.NET 2.0 compilation model. The new dynamic compilation for pages and user controls has the side-effect of making their types more difficult to reference. The best solution is to create a base class for your control which
exposes the functionality you need, and reference that instead. Have a look at
this article for more info. HTH
May 22, 2009 09:01 AM|aazizorg|LINK
Thank you both for replying. Talk about a long article. I'll be sure to look into it in more detail later. I'm going to see if jzimmerman's solution will work first. I have considered creating an interface in App_Code for each control... but that can be annoying, and perhaps there's another way. I'm just confused as to why the difference between code-behind and inline impacts so heavily on this issue.
As to referencing the control by namespace, I'll be sure to try that (as soon as I get VS up on this slow computer). I haven't put anything in a namespace (perhaps I should?), so you're saying the FQN is <ProjectName>.controls.FooControl ? (I hope this works for nested folders, as the actual control is ~/controls/reports/ReportForm.ascx. Normally, I wouldn't doubt it, but there's been too many surprises). I'm going to try this out, but one thing I can forsee is not knowing the project name. I'm connected to localhost (and it's not something I can change, this is the way the development machines are set up here). What would the project name be, then?
Again, Thanks, I welcome more advice and explanations!
May 22, 2009 10:05 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
it may also depend upon what type of project you are doing. (you mentioned that you have an app_code folder, and i think that app_code folders are only used in web sites, not web apps.)
with a web app, you control source files look something like this:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; namespace XUCS.code.controls { public partial class CourseDisplay : System.Web.UI.UserControl {
the namespace line is automatically generated to be ProjectNamespace.ParentFolder.ChildFolder
for web site projects, the namespace block is removed, but now the class name (that is, if kept as default) reflects the controls folder path. so all there would be to define the control would be
public partial class Code_Controls_CourseDisplay : System.Web.UI.UserControl
So, if you are using a web site project, then you should already be doing it right, as long as you are sure you are using the full class name on the controls code file.
Instead of referring to your code via a general example, could you possibly post (or email me) the actual code you are using?
May 22, 2009 10:17 AM|aazizorg|LINK
WELL, after restarting VS and waiting 20 minutes for it to load (yeah, I know, a new workstation is in the works...), I believe I've got something.
I started with a using clause, then browed through the namespaces IntelliSense brought up. I looked throught the unusualy sounding ones, and found one called "ASP". IntelliSense showed me there were a few classes in there... related to some (but not all) of my UserControls, and no child namespaces. So I simply put "using ASP", and it worked, at least for my test were the page and the control are in the same directory. Now, to test a more realistic situation.
I'll post more when I find out more.
May 22, 2009 10:27 AM|aazizorg|LINK
Sorry jzimmerman, posted before I read your reply. Let me gather the code and post it. I'll have to edit it to take out database and server paths, but the actual code shouldn't be too big an issue.
The project is a Web Site Project, I think. How I opened it, Open Website > IIS > localhost. And I tried the full class name (_controls_reports_ReportForm), but it was the same issue. If I put ClassName="ReportForm" in the markup file, I can reference it by that name anyways.
The issue was referencing in the code-behind file of an aspx page. I think the namespace was the issue. And I think the ASP namespace only contains controls where you use the <%@ Reference Control="..." %> to reference the file. I'm still testing. Thanks
for the advice, again.
May 22, 2009 10:32 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
as long as the control is visible in the namespace you referenced, it really shouldn't matter whether the page is in the same folder as the control.
you might want to check the controls that you said were not listed under the namespace, and see which namespace they belong to in their code file, just so you would know for future reference.
May 22, 2009 10:41 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
I just played around with a few things, and in a new web site project, i could only use controls in the code-behind that were referenced in the aspx markup using the <%@ Reference %> tag.
The ASP namespace you imported must have been written into the control code files, it is not generated by default i dont believe. if you check a control's code that is in that namespace, then it probably has the ASP namespace declaration. The controls
that you noticed were missing probably have not had that namespace added to them yet.
Actually, i think you are right about the ASP namespace thing. I added a reference tag to a page real quick, and the class appeared in the ASP namespace.
May 22, 2009 11:08 AM|aazizorg|LINK
Okay, I figured it out (with help to you guys, of course!). The namespace is "ASP" for this website. I don't know why, but it is. I'll give a little background. I started at this company in October, and I didn't start working on the web application until February. The software is a subscriber based web application spread across multiple server farms. It was originally done in classic ASP, and only a few new parts are being coded in ASP.NET (my Crystal Reports module is one of them). Everyone has a copy of the webapp in there local IIS folder, so I connect to the website under localhost IIS. It has a lot of .asp and other files, so it's not a deployed project. I save the pages I work on, then browse to http://localhost/apage.aspx to test.
There is no namespace in the code-behind files. From your post it sounds likes the ASP namespace is the default namespace for controls referenced. Anyways, this works for me. I'll post the relevant code. You won't be able to run it, there's some framework
objects there that are just to complicated to post.
Here's the page:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="ReferencingControlsIncodeBehind.aspx.cs" Inherits="_test_ReferencingControlsIncodeBehind" %> <%@ Reference Control="~/_test/WebUserControlInline.ascx" %> <%@ Reference Control="~/_test/WebUserControlCodebehind.ascx" %> <%@ Reference Control="~/controls/reports/ScheduledReports.ascx" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <title>Untitled Page</title>   <form id="form1" runat="server">
 <asp:PlaceHolder ID="placeholder" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
 </form>
And the code behind:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using ASP;
public partial class _test_ReferencingControlsIncodeBehind : System.Web.UI.Page
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
WebUserControlInline inline = (WebUserControlInline)LoadControl("WebUserControlInline.ascx");
inline.Text = "INLINE";
WebUserControlCodebehind codebehind = (WebUserControlCodebehind)LoadControl("WebUserControlCodebehind.ascx");
codebehind.Text = "CODE BEHIND";
ScheduledReports scheduledReports = (ScheduledReports)LoadControl("~/controls/reports/ScheduledReports.ascx");
XmlReportScheduler scheduler = new XmlReportScheduler(Application["app_imagingserver1"].ToString(), 479);
scheduler.oabcode = 0;
scheduledReports.LoadSchedules(scheduler, 479);
And the ReportScheduler.ascx
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="ScheduledReports.ascx.cs" Inherits="controls_reports_ScheduledReports" ClassName="ScheduledReports"%>
<asp:Repeater ID="reportList" runat="server">
Scheduled Report (Click to modify)
Created By
Last Modified
Last Ran
<asp:LinkButton ID="editLink" CommandName="edit" CommandArgument="<%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).File %>" runat="server"><%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).File.Replace(".xml", "") %></asp:LinkButton>
<%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).UserId %>
<%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).Modified.ToString(XmlReportScheduler.LIF_DATE_FORMAT) %>
<%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).LastRan > DateTime.MinValue ? ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).LastRan.ToString(XmlReportScheduler.LIF_DATE_FORMAT) : "Never" %>
<asp:LinkButton ID="deleteLink" CommandName="delete" CommandArgument="<%# ((ScheduledReport)Container.DataItem).File %>" runat="server">Delete</asp:LinkButton>
Total scheduled reports: <%# Container.ItemIndex %>
And it's code behind:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
public partial class controls_reports_ScheduledReports : System.Web.UI.UserControl
public event CommandEventHandler EditSchedule;
public event CommandEventHandler DeletedSchedule;
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
reportList.ItemCommand += new RepeaterCommandEventHandler(reportList_ItemCommand);
public void LoadSchedules(XmlReportScheduler scheduler, int mabcode)
List<ScheduledReport> reports = scheduler.GetScheduledReportSummaries(mabcode);
if (reports.Count < 1)
reportList.DataSource = null;
reportList.DataSource = reports;
private void reportList_ItemCommand(object source, RepeaterCommandEventArgs e)
if (e.CommandName == "edit")
if (EditSchedule != null)
EditSchedule(this, new CommandEventArgs("filename", e.CommandArgument));
else if (e.CommandName == "delete")
if (DeletedSchedule != null)
DeletedSchedule(this, new CommandEventArgs("filename", e.CommandArgument));
May 22, 2009 11:10 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
the more i think about it, i dont think that you can use namespaces in code files, since you are using a web site project.
with a web app project, all the code is compiled into an actual .dll library, whereas with a web site, the code is not compiled this way. since with a web app all the code is in one assembly, it can contain things like namespaces, but with a web site, the
code files are just code files, and since they are not in an assembly, they cannot be contained in things like namespaces.
May 22, 2009 11:19 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
from what ive been playing around with (i use web apps instead of web sites, so i dont know too much about their differences), it seems that the ASP namespace is an "on-the-fly" namespace. if you have two different pages, and look at the ASP namespace for
each, then you will find that they do not show the same things. by default, it looks as if for each page, their ASP namespace allows access to the current page for which you are working on. then, when you add Reference tags, the controls you reference for
that page become visible only in that pages ASP namespace. (this would explain why earlier, not all of the controls in the directory where you put them were visible in the ASP namespace).
as i said in my previous post, web sites are not compiled into an assembly. This would also mean that your web site project does not actually have a namespace to it.
May 22, 2009 11:22 AM|aazizorg|LINK
Yeah, I've read into the Website-VS-Webapp bit, and see what you mean. Well, I edited my above post, that solution worked. The rules as I understand them:
May 22, 2009 11:40 AM|jzimmerman2011|LINK
- The control needs to have a ClassName tag in the <%@ Control %> tag (actually, I think if it doesn't you'll use the generated class name?)
ClassName i believe will only override the name of the class as defined in the code-behind.
May 22, 2009 11:42 AM|aazizorg|LINK
I think I've got a work around for that problem that better suits the situation anyways.
You actually helped me a lot. I didn't know what kind of response I'd get on these forums, but so far looks pretty helpful, I'm glad I posted.


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