'EditPage' is ambiguous because of multiple kinds of

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2018 18:57

'EditPage' is ambiguous because of multiple kinds of members with this name exist in class 'Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages.PageManager'.

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Oct-2011 00:00

I get the following error message in Visual Studio:
'EditPage' is ambiguous because of multiple kinds of members with this name exist in class 'Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages.PageManager'.

I took the C# example found in the documentation for Creating Pages (which follows):


public const string UrlNameCharsToReplace = @"[^\w\-\!\$\'\(\)\=\@\d_]+";
public const string UrlNameReplaceString = "-";

public bool CreatePage( Guid pageId, string pageName )

    var pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid();
    PageManager manager = PageManager.GetManager();

    bool exists = manager.GetPageNodes().Where( n => n.Id == pageId ).SingleOrDefault() != null;

    if ( exists )
    
        return false;
    

    PageData pageData = manager.CreatePageData( pageDataId );
    pageData.HtmlTitle = pageName;
    pageData.Title = pageName;

    PageNode parent = manager.GetPageNode( SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId );
    PageNode pageNode = manager.CreatePage( parent, pageId, NodeType.Standard );
    pageNode.Page = pageData;
    pageNode.Name = pageName;
    pageNode.Title = pageName;
    pageNode.UrlName = Regex.Replace( pageName.ToLower(), UrlNameCharsToReplace, UrlNameReplaceString );
    pageNode.ShowInNavigation = true;
    pageNode.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;
    pageNode.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

    manager.RecompileItemUrls<PageNode>( pageNode );

    var draft = manager.EditPage( pageData.Id, true );
    manager.PublishPageDraft( draft, true, null );
    manager.SaveChanges();

    return true;

 








I then ran that code through the Telerik's C# to VB converter and got the following code:

 

 


    Public Const UrlNameCharsToReplace As String = "[^\w\-\!\$\'\(\)\=\@\d_]+"
    Public Const UrlNameReplaceString As String = "-"

    Public Function CreatePage(ByVal pageId As Guid, ByVal pageName As String) As Boolean
        Dim pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid()
        Dim manager As PageManager = PageManager.GetManager()

        Dim exists As Boolean = manager.GetPageNodes().Where(Function(n) n.Id = pageId).SingleOrDefault() IsNot Nothing

        If exists Then
            Return False
        End If

        Dim pageData As PageData = manager.CreatePageData(pageDataId)
        pageData.HtmlTitle = pageName
        pageData.Title = pageName

        Dim parent As PageNode = manager.GetPageNode(SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId)
        Dim pageNode As PageNode = manager.CreatePage(parent, pageId, NodeType.Standard)
        pageNode.Page = pageData
        pageNode.Name = pageName
        pageNode.Title = pageName
        pageNode.UrlName = Regex.Replace(pageName.ToLower(), UrlNameCharsToReplace, UrlNameReplaceString)
        pageNode.ShowInNavigation = True
        pageNode.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow
        pageNode.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow

        manager.RecompileItemUrls(Of PageNode)(pageNode)

        Dim draft = manager.EditPage(pageData.Id, True)

        'manager.PublishPageDraft(draft, True, Nothing)     'This code is from Sitefinity's example, which is apparently, now obsolete.
        manager.PublishPageDraft(draft, Nothing)
        manager.SaveChanges()

        Return True
    End Function




 

The line that generates the error is:

 

Dim draft = manager.EditPage(pageData.Id, True)

 

 

 

 

 

Any ideas?








Posted by Community Admin on 17-Oct-2011 00:00

Hello John,

When you get the ambiguous error you should click on it to see at which line is the ambiguous reference.
For example you can say

manager.Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages.PageManager.EditPage( pageData.Id, true );
This way Edit will know specifically which of the referenced assemblies to use to call EditPage method.

Best wishes,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team
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