Circular reference in user controls in Aspx page

Rehan Mubarak 1

Hi ,

I have aspx application which has 2 user controls i.e Employee and EmployeeDetails
I have referered Employee Details control in EmployeeUser controls because whenever user selects any employee records it navigates to display the contents in Employee Details Control.

Now the problem is that I use this Employee details controls for new employee addition and updation for existing employees . I also need to refresh the Employee Grid after any new addition/Updation of employee but when I refer it is throwing circular reference error .

Please provide suggestions to overcome this

Sean Fang-MSFT 156 Reputation points

2020-12-17T02:24:55.997+00:00
Hi @Rehan Mubarak ,

Sorry that I missed a very important information that you only have two user controls and they refer to each other, which causes a "Circular Reference". There is no direct workaround to solve this error.
The problem with circular references is that the compiler can not decide which component compile first.
So the only option is to refactor the layout of your user controls and break the circular reference chain.

Could you please provide codes about your user controls so that I could help to redesign your controls?
From my view, it might be possible to:

put two user controls in side one user control (3 in total)

merge two user controls into one user control (1 in total)

I have deleted previous answer to avoid disturbing you.

Sean

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