Calling function from another website cs file

Question

I'm making a Website using Visual Studio 2015. I have 2 classes, Default:System.Web.UI.Page and Login:System.Web.UI.Page . Both are partial classes.

I have a function called returnUserType from Login and I want to have it in Default so that if userType` is a certain number, the page redirects.

I tried this:

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Login loginClass = new Login();
        int userType = loginClass.returnUserType();
    }
}

But it says Login does not contain a definition for returnUserType .

The class is a public partial class Login:System.Web.UI.Page with other functions inside and has this

public int returnUserType()
{
   try
   {
      return userType;
   }
   catch
   {
      Response.Write("UserType failed to be returned.");
      return 9;
   }
 }

I know I should probably be using Identity or Membership but I can't get them to run for some reason.

Answer 1

Create a base Page and inherit all your pages from it, so the code should look like this

public class BasePage:System.Web.UI.Page
{
   public int returnUserType()
   {
     try
     {
       return userType;
     }
     catch
     {
       Response.Write("UserType failed to be returned.");
       return 9;
     } 
  }
}

public partial class _Default : BasePage
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        int userType = returnUserType();
    }
}