Hi, I've been having problems for awhile now with this. I made a couple classes that pretty much encapsulate the already simple to use ADO.net SQL objects and such (just to make it simplier for me..I work with them all the time). I put these classes in a .DLL and can use these classes fine on my local machine, but once I upload them to the web it always says i'm missing a reference to the assembly. (I've tried many things and i'm now just giving up on that idea)... A quick work around was that I could just place the classes in every code-behind file (like Default.aspx.cs)..This worked fine and dandy in ASP.net 1.1, but since I upgraded to ASP.net 2.0 it often tells me that the classes are already registered in the <global assembly> (or something like that)...I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't happen every time.. I don't know enough about the compilination process to know what it's trying to do or why it's trying to do that. So my question is...What do you guys do? I mean no doubt other people besides me have created classes or libaries that need to be used in multiple files? How do you include the classes that you need? Funny I thought ASP.net 2.0 was suppose to be more advanced and easier than Classic ASP...Would be nice if you could just do an <%@include file%> or something... Looking forward to your responses.. Ratings to all that help. ArchG

Thank you very much for your reply...

I was actually using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, and it wasn't compiling my code...

I tried what you said with VS.net 2005, and it worked fine again on my local machine..I published the website fine, but when I try to use the simple web application it gives me a..

Could not load the assembly 'App_Web_z165e0r4'. Make sure that it is compiled before accessing the page.

error...Here is the Source snippet it shows..

<%@ page language="C#" autoeventwireup="true" inherits="_Default, App_Web_z165e0r4" %>

The funny thing is, that in my actualy Default.aspx page, it says

Inherits="_Default"

...So i'm unsure what it's trying to do here..

I tried publishing to 2 different webservers...the same happened on each of them, except the App_Web_z165e0r4 had a different ending..

anyone else have this problem?

After looking through the directories a bit, I found that when publishing it, it actually changes the Default.aspx to add that line..

and..inside the Bin directory, it put a App_Web_z165e0r4.dll..but none the less it still gives me that error

Could not load the assembly 'App_Web_z165e0r4'. Make sure that it is compiled before accessing the page

..thoughts anyone?