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Have you received this error?

The base class includes the field ‘MyUserControl_1, but its type (MyUserControl) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.MyControl_ascx).

Or in my case:

The base class includes the field 'proxyContainer', but its type (ProxyContainer) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.maintenance_proxycontainer_ascx).

Well first you should check out this article and see if it fixes your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919284

However for some of you (myself included) that article didn’t do squat to fix my problem with the error listed above, I don’t want to keep my control in the same folder as my pages.

Based on the article above I fall under the category of: “The application contains references to Web pages that are outside the current directory.”

My Design:

My code uses a "ProxyContainer.ascx" UserControl that references another user control on another server in another assembly. I register the control on a page and one of my properties is to point to the HostServerURL and ControllerInstanceId. 

Everytime I changed anything at all the code threw me the above said error. (Even when it was just a char on the HTML page). 

Problem:
In the ASPX Page I was referencing my ProxyContainer.ascx everytime I made any changes at all the auto generated  designer code was changing my type from

protected global::System.Web.UI.UserControl proxyContainerControl;

to 

protected global::ProxyContainer proxyContainerControl;

Which then caused my circular reference.

Solution:

I need to stop the auto-generated code from changing my type and I’m set. I moved the code:

“protected global::ProxyContainer proxyContainerControl;”

 Into the code behind at the class level fields and the designer stopped generating my type and now it all works.

Solution #2:

I was helping somebody on Expert Exchange and their problem was to Change their Codebehind to a CodeFile in the ASCX file.

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