Make a Copy of a Page for same task with new data

[B827]

Hi,
I am moving on from ASP to ASP.NET and need some advice. I have an application where I have to perform a very similar task on two datasets. I have a page which does what I want on one of the tables and would now like to repeat the process on the other.
In good old ASP I would just copy the page and do some simple editing of names and it would work fine. In Visual Studio.NET if I try a "Save As" the code behind pages get horribly confused and neither the original nor the copy work. The only way to do what I want appears to be to start designing again from the beginning. This is a long way round for a short-cut; or am I missing something?

Many thanks

Sandy

 

[ca8msm]

You can just select a page in the solution explorer, click copy select the project again and click paste. However, the class name that is given to the page in the code behind file may remain the same so you may have to rename it. Alternatively, you can do the same thing in windows explorer but remember to change the class name again.

Another method, if the functions are bascially the same but for different tables, would be to look at only using one page based on a certain criteria (e.g. a querysting value, or a session variable etc).


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