Hi,

I'm trying to write a DB actions class for my web project to help reduce code duplication for example I want to show a dropdownlist with countries, populated from my DB, on more than one page, so instead of writing the code in each required page I thought that if I put it in a class I could then call a function i.e. populateCountriesDDL when required.

Does anyone know how to do this? Am I going about this the correct way or is there a better solution, with classic asp I would create an asp include file and add it in wherever needed

I've tried referencing


VB Code:
  1. Imports System.Web.UI 

  2. Imports System.Web.UI.HtmlControls 

  3. Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls

but get error message - namespace could not be found for each of the above

Thought I could pass the function the DDL and populate it from there?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Cheers Al