Need help persisting a dynamically loaded userControl...

[Urbal]

Ok, I've done quite a bit of testing and am stuck. Here's the
situation, I have two userControls and my webForm page.

menu.ascx - menu
contentEditor.ascx - input box + button
desktopDefault.aspx - blank, except menu.ascx userControl loaded


menu.ascx - obviously contains my menu, a selection of choices... when
the user clicks the "content editor" menu option, I load
contentEditor.ascx dynamically on desktopDefault.aspx by accessing the
<form> on the page and loading my control.

Now loading works just fine, but when I try to run my button_event from
contentEditor.ascx, it never fires. So far I have noticed that when I
click my "save" button on contentEditor.ascx, it does a few things:
--> Reloads DesktopDefault.aspx
--> Reloads menu.ascx

Now when it reloads menu.ascx, I lose the dynamically built control
contentEditor.ascx, which is why the button event never fires. My
question is, how do I maintain the contentEditor control on
desktopDefault.aspx and tell menu.ascx to again load my pre-selected
choice?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-e

[Brock Allen]

When you dynamically add controls into the page it is up to you to recreate
them upon postback. The two places to do this is in Page_Init or CreateChildControls.
If you're doing this from a user control you can also do this from Page_Load.

The challenge is storing the necessary state information to remember what
controls to add.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
[url]http://staff.develop.com/ballen[/url]

> Ok, I've done quite a bit of testing and am stuck. Here's the
> situation, I have two userControls and my webForm page.
>
> menu.ascx - menu
> contentEditor.ascx - input box + button
> desktopDefault.aspx - blank, except menu.ascx userControl loaded
> menu.ascx - obviously contains my menu, a selection of choices... when
> the user clicks the "content editor" menu option, I load
> contentEditor.ascx dynamically on desktopDefault.aspx by accessing the
> <form> on the page and loading my control.
>
> Now loading works just fine, but when I try to run my button_event
> from
> contentEditor.ascx, it never fires. So far I have noticed that when I
> click my "save" button on contentEditor.ascx, it does a few things:
> --> Reloads DesktopDefault.aspx
> --> Reloads menu.ascx
> Now when it reloads menu.ascx, I lose the dynamically built control
> contentEditor.ascx, which is why the button event never fires. My
> question is, how do I maintain the contentEditor control on
> desktopDefault.aspx and tell menu.ascx to again load my pre-selected
> choice?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> -e
>