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aspx c# code behind not recognizing controls

I created a child template from visual studio to manage my kentico template. The template worked fine except that all the controls in it is not accessible from code behind because it is not recognized. I have checked for on line solution but none solved the issue. I even got this link
Codebehind file doesn't recognize aspx-controls
without any luck since I can't even access the myfile.aspx.designer.cs.
What do I trie again?
Note: My controls are not inside any panel or other control. Just inside a normal div.

Try adding runat="server" to your id tag.
Here is an example.
<tr class="headerrow" id="tbrHeader" runat="server">

I am unfamiliar with Kentico, but this is what I have come up with as possible solutions without having seen your code:
Make sure all your controls have a 'runat' attribute: runat="server". I am not trying to insult your intelligence, but it is an easy thing to forget(As I have done before), without this the control won't be recognised from code-behind
If it is a template file, have you made sure the codebehind that refers to it, is the code-behind of the template file, as the codebehind of other pages will not be able to find the control in the template without you telling them where it is.
With your new comment on the question: If your class is abstract, have you tried wrapping it in a non-abstract class? (source: stackoverflow.com/questions/481305)

How do I create hyperlinks from resource files?

I have some text which is loaded from a resource file. Ordinarily, to get dynamic content I would use:
string.Format(GetLocalResourceObject("SomeText"), PhoneNumberAsString)
I want to do the same with a link, only the link needs to be application relative as I have URLs like mysite.com/page.aspx and mysite.com/fr/page.aspx.
I normally use an <asp:HyperLink /> tag to create the links as I can then just put a squiggle at the start NavigateUrl="~/page.aspx". However, I don't know of a way to get a dynamic HyperLink to appear as a string without adding it as a control to something.
Simply writing ToString() outputs System.Web.UI.WebControls.HyperLink..
How do I get a link out of a resource file and make it into a hyperlink using ASP.NET Webforms?
UPDATE
With some help from the answers I now have the following code on my page:
<p><%= string.Format(GetGlobalResourceObject("Resource", "MoreThan1000Users").ToString(), ResolveUrl("~/contact-us.aspx")) %></p>
and in my resource file I have:
If you would like more than 1000 users please call our sales team.
Does this seem like good practice or is there another way to achieve what I'm doing? I don't know if I should be happy or not that there is HTML inside the resource file.

Since you haven't posted code, I'm guessing somewhere you have a HyperLink WebControl object that you're hitting ToString() on. If that's the case, you can access the URL associated with it using its myHyperLinkControl.NavigateUrl property.
If you're storing the link in your resource with a squiggle/tilde (which is good) then you can replace the squiggle with your application location. If you have a control/page, then you can easily call its ResolveURL method (which takes the tilde and automatically replaces it) There's some existing solutions if you don't have a control/page reference with your context, then there's some discussion to do that here: ResolveUrl without an ASP.NET Page

I guess this is what you want:
Server.MapPath("~/page.aspx")
That will work inside your aspx and your code-behind.

Referencing an ASP control within a LoginView

Another total newb question, I'm afraid: I have a LoginView with some HyperLinks inside it, but when I try to reference the HyperLink in the code behind it tells me that it doesn't exist in the "current context".
eg. hypLink1.NavigateUrl = "some/link/on/my/site.aspx"
I've figured out that it's only because it's in the LoginView that it can't find it... so what can I do to tell it to look inside the LoginView?
I thought it might be something intuitive like:
LoginView1.hypLink1.NavigateUrl = "some/link/on/my/site.aspx"
But to no avail.
Thanks for any help with this (most likely) really obvious problem!

I'm guessing that you're trying to reference the hyperlink from outside the loginview control?
At that point, you could try a FindControls operation on the LoginView:
HyperLink hypLink1 = (HyperLink)LoginView1.FindControls("hypLink1");
UPDATE
Ok, so I was confused as to what you were asking. The LoginView control only allows FindControls, and so you have to use the code snippet up above in order to reference controls internal to it.
Since the LoginView control uses templates, different controls will exist under different circumstances. As such, the code cannot ensure any given control inside the template will be alive at compile time.
So you'll have to FindControls every time you want to get a child control :'(

Open a new window with asp.net

Im new into that asp.net thing, but here goes.
I got at ImageButton, and when its clicked i want the image displayed in another window. If I can avoid using ajax i would like to do that.
If possible would like to make the window modal, but still avoid ajax, since Im not ready to mix more technolgies yet.

The existing answers with JavaScript are fine, but just to suggest an alternative - could you use a HyperLink (with an ImageUrl set so you still get an image) and set its Target property instead?

IMHO the best practice to show a picture is in the same page on the top of the content. I personally use Lightbox. You can find the documentation on their page, so it should be easy for you to integrate their JavaScript code.

Somewhat like this:
<asp:ImageButton ID="imbJoin" CssClass="btn-find" AlternateText="Find" ToolTip="Find" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/library/btn-find.gif" onClick="javascript:popUp("ServicesLocator.aspx")" />
Resource: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/.NET/ASP.NET/Q_22832169.html
Using the ImageButton you need to use a JavaScript to open it in a new window. You can also look into the OnClientClick-event

You can use the ImageButton's OnClientClick property:
<asp:ImageButton ... OnClientClick="javascript:window.open('url_to_image');" >
But this popup window will not be modal.

The following javascript will do what you're looking for:
window.open('page.html','WindowTitle','width=400,height=200')

It might be worth pointing to a two relevant entries in the excellent EFNet's #javascript FAQ:
Correct Use of Popups - yay accessibility!
How do I make a popup window the same size as my image?
How do I create a custom 'OK' dialog or something similar? - modal windows are not that useful and something like the suggested Lightbox or similar scripts would be better "modal" options
Correct Use of Links - this one being only partly on-topic but the previous answers use of the "javascript:" pseudo protocol made it necessary: it is never required nor useful in a web page that should work across browsers. After all, JavaScript is the default (and only) scripting language.

Thank you for all the answers! I ended up using lightbox
I found this example
http://neutrongenious.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/lightbox-for-asp-net-2-0/
And it works perfectly

Failing to add controls to a page dynamically

I'm adding a User Control for each record pulled up in a data reader, here's the basic loop:
while (dr.Read())
{
ImageSelect imgSel = new ImageSelect(dr["Name"].ToString());
myPanel.Controls.Add(imgSel);
}
The problem is that there are no controls added to the page, I check the html output and there is my panel, with nothing in it.
I even stepped through the code in the debugger, and verified that myPanel.Controls gets a control added on each loop, with the count being 6, no errors, but then they dont show up on the page.
I've run the above code in the Page_Init and Page_Load events, both with the same result.
EDIT:
Ok so I've switched to using LoadControl("....ascx") to get my control instance, which is now working. But originally I was also passing in data via the controls constructor.. Is this still possible or do I just need to set them via get/sets?
EDIT 2:
Thanks to Freddy for pointing out that the LoadControl has an overload where you CAN pass in constructor params, see accepted answer.
EDIT 3:
After trying this method both with and without the constructor. I have found its better to just use setters for any properties I want the control to have versus trying to use the passed in object array for my constructor.

Update: As Steve pointed out, the overload of LoadControl that uses the type won't take into account the controls in the ascx. This is also mentioned in this answer: Dynamically Loading a UserControl with LoadControl Method (Type, object[]).
As I mentioned before, the get/set are more in line with the asp.net model, so I recommend using that with the LoadControl variation that receives the user control path. That said, the Steve's version is an interesting alternative: http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/01/05/passing-parameters-using-loadcontrol/.
My take is the LoadControl with type is meant to be used with web custom controls instead.
If it is an user control you should use LoadControl(usercontrolpath) to get the instance of the user control.
You can use a constructor by doing:
var name = dr["Name"].ToString();
var imgSel = LoadControl(typeof(ImageSelect), new object[]{ name });
myPanel.Controls.Add(imgSel);
Notice that depending on the project model you are using, you need to add a Reference to the aspx to use it with the typeof variation:
<%# Reference Control="~/somepath/myusercontrol.ascx" %>
Ps. I usually use the set/get for controls as I find them more in line with the asp.net model

To add UserControls you must call the LoadControl method passing in the path to the .ascx file. You can not create them by just instantiating the object the .ascx file inherits from.
A UserControl consists of both the markup and the class in the code behind. The markup contains a link to the class behind, but the class behind does not know where the markup lives and therefore can not be created on it's own.