Hi Nikki,
thanks for your reply-im very grateful for your info,however i have no idea how to figure out from that stack trace which object is null..none of it makes any sense to me,im still relatively new to asp.net:(
this is what it says,anyone know what on earth this means :o
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildPropertyBindingMethod(ControlBuilder builder) +1660
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +842
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +353
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +517
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +684
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +684
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +353
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildSourceDataTreeFromBuilder(ControlBuilder builder, Boolean fInTemplate, PropertySetterEntry pse) +353
System.Web.Compilation.TemplateControlCompiler.BuildMiscClassMembers() +52
System.Web.Compilation.PageCompiler.BuildMiscClassMembers() +10
System.Web.Compilation.BaseCompiler.BuildSourceDataTree() +1291
System.Web.Compilation.BaseCompiler.GetCompiledType() +129
System.Web.UI.PageParser.CompileIntoType() +60
System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemThroughCompilation() +126
[HttpException (0x80004005): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemInternal(Boolean fCreateIfNotFound) +691
System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItemWithNewConfigPath() +125
System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetParserCacheItem() +88
System.Web.UI.TemplateControlParser.CompileAndGetParserCacheItem(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) +120
System.Web.UI.TemplateControlParser.GetCompiledInstance(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) +36
System.Web.UI.PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstanceInternal(String virtualPath, String inputFile, HttpContext context) +43
System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.GetHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, String url, String path) +44
System.Web.HttpApplication.MapHttpHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, String path, String pathTranslated, Boolean useAppConfig) +699
System.Web.MapHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication+IExecutionStep.Execute() +95
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +173