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2/25/2011 11:19 AM
 
mirkak


Joined: 9/26/2010
Posts: 2
Hi everybody!

I'm a total newbie in creating skins and trying to build my first one according to DNN skinning tutorial.
Everything has gone well up to creating the containers. In tutorial I'm suggested  to create xml files and html structure with tables and add some tokens there.

For some reason I get this error everytime I try to parse the skin and the containers. Am I missing a class that I should initialize or somthing?
Has anyone got the same error when creating the containers?  Too bad that I don't know enough of programming to be able to solve this myself :(

I'm grateful for all the info and help.

/mk

So this is the error I get when trying to parse  the skin&containers:


An error has occurred.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.ActionButtonList.get_ModuleActions() at DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.ActionButtonList.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.ActionButton.CreateChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
 
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2/25/2011 5:30 PM
 
Kelly Edvalson


Joined: 10/1/2009
Posts: 55
Could you post your container source?
 
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3/6/2011 1:24 AM
 
mirkak


Joined: 9/26/2010
Posts: 2
Hi and great thanks for looking at my post! And sorry for the delay with my reply :(

I thought my message wasn't posted at all cause I didn't find it earlier.

Anyway... here the content of the container follows. (first ascx then xml and html -files). All the code I have in the files are here.

I somehow have a feeling that it's probably something really simple that is wrong or missing.

/Mirka


ASCX-FILE


<%@ Control language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Containers.Container" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ACTIONS" Src="~/Admin/Containers/SolPartActions.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ICON" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Icon.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TITLE" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Title.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="VISIBILITY" Src="~/Admin/Containers/Visibility.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="ACTIONBUTTON" Src="~/Admin/Containers/ActionButton.ascx" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="PRINTMODULE" Src="~/Admin/Containers/PrintModule.ascx" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerMainTable">

<tr>

<td style="padding:5px";>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerHeader">

<tr>

<td style="width:5px;"><dnn:ACTIONS runat="server" id="dnnACTIONS" /></td>

<td style="width:5px;"><dnn:ICON runat="server" id="dnnICON" /></td>

<td align="left"><dnn:TITLE runat="server" id="dnnTITLE" /></td>

<td style="width:5px;padding-right:5px;" valign="top"><dnn:VISIBILITY runat="server" id="dnnVISIBILITY" /></td>

<td style="width:5px;"><dnn:ACTIONBUTTON runat="server" id="dnnACTIONBUTTON4" /></td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="ContainerContent"><div runat="server" id="ContentPane"></div></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="padding:5px;">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerFooter">

<tr>

<td><dnn:ACTIONBUTTON runat="server" id="dnnACTIONBUTTON1" /></td>

<td><dnn:ACTIONBUTTON runat="server" id="dnnACTIONBUTTON2" /></td>

<td><dnn:ACTIONBUTTON runat="server" id="dnnACTIONBUTTON3" /></td>

<td style="width:10px;"><dnn:PRINTMODULE runat="server" id="dnnPRINTMODULE" /></td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

　

　

</table>





XML - FILE

　

<Objects>

<Object>

<Token>

[ACTIONBUTTON:1]

</Token>

<Settings>

<Setting>

<Name>CommandName</Name>

<Value>AddContent.Action</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayIcon</Name>

<Value>True</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayLink</Name>

<Value>True</Value>

</Setting>

</Settings>

</Object>

<Object>

<Token>

[ACTIONBUTTON:2]

</Token>

<Settings>

<Setting>

<Name>CommandName</Name>

<Value>SyndicateModule.Action</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayIcon</Name>

<Value>True</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayLink</Name>

<Value>False</Value>

</Setting>

</Settings>

</Object>

<Object>

<Token>

[ACTIONBUTTON:3]

</Token>

<Settings>

<Setting>

<Name>CommandName</Name>

<Value>ModuleSettings.Action</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayIcon</Name>

<Value>True</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayLink</Name>

<Value>False</Value>

</Setting>

</Settings>

</Object>

<Object>

<Token>

[ACTIONBUTTON:4]

</Token>

<Settings>

<Setting>

<Name>CommandName</Name>

<Value>ModuleHelp.Action</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayIcon</Name>

<Value>True</Value>

</Setting>

<Setting>

<Name>DisplayLink</Name>

<Value>False</Value>

</Setting>

</Settings>

</Object>

</Objects>




HTML-FILE


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerMainTable">

<tr>

<td style="padding:5px";>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerHeader">

<tr>

<td style="width:5px;">[ACTIONS]</td>

<td style="width:5px;">[ICON]</td>

<td align="left">[TITLE]</td>

<td style="width:5px;padding-right:5px;" valign="top">[VISIBILITY]</td>

<td style="width:5px;">[ACTIONBUTTON:4]</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="ContainerContent">[CONTENTPANE]</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="padding:5px;">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContainerFooter">

<tr>

<td>[ACTIONBUTTON:1]</td>

<td>[ACTIONBUTTON:2]</td>

<td>[ACTIONBUTTON:3]</td>

<td style="width:10px;">[PRINTMODULE]</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

　

　

</table>
 
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