Sounds like you are using VB.NET....
Put the Option compare right up at the top of the aspx.cs code behind
file... before any of the imports namespace lines.
That should work.

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> Where do I put the Option Compare statement (Option Compare Text) in an
> asp.net page in order to compare string variables case insensitive? All I
> get is error messages so far.