can you post a screenshot of how this looks on the UI?
also, instead of touching the codebehind, couldn't one do the following?
<
asp:PlaceHolder
runat
=
"server"
ID
=
"plhNumber"
>
<
span
class='number'><%= MonoSoftware.MonoX.Repositories.MessageRepository.GetInstance().GetNumberOfUnreadMessages(SecurityUtility.GetUserId()); %></
span
>
</
asp:PlaceHolder
>
in that case, what's the namespace where SecurityUtility class is?