user control - passing values

[Steve C. Orr, MCSD]

You could declare your the controls inside your user control as public
instead of the default of protected.
Then you can access them directly from your web form like this:
MyControl.MyDropdown.ToString...

But rather than unprotecting your controls you might want to take a more
object oriented approach and make special methods on your user control to
expose specific control values to the page.

For example, if you have a public method in your user control like this:
Public Function MyDropDownListValue() as String
Return MyDropDownList.ToString
End Function

Then you can call the method from your main page like this:
MyControl.MyDropDownListValue

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD
[url]http://Steve.Orr.net[/url]



"Sabre" <maximNOSPAM@wave.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Hello All
>
> I've got a form with one user control embedded. Both contain textboxes,
> dropdownlists and checkboxes. Short of using sessions (haven't tried
> viewstate) what means can be used to pass values between? So if checkbox1

is

> checked on the form, I'd like the user control to recognise this.

Similarly

> if a textbox on my user control contains text, I'd like to use this text

in

> my form.
>
> TIA
> Graeme
>
>

[Sabre]

Thanks Steve. You certainly got all the answers! Regards, Graeme
"Steve C. Orr, MCSD" <Steve@Orr.net> wrote in message
news:uIErZXASDHA.2252@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

> You could declare your the controls inside your user control as public
> instead of the default of protected.
> Then you can access them directly from your web form like this:
> MyControl.MyDropdown.ToString...
>
> But rather than unprotecting your controls you might want to take a more
> object oriented approach and make special methods on your user control to
> expose specific control values to the page.
>
> For example, if you have a public method in your user control like this:
> Public Function MyDropDownListValue() as String
> Return MyDropDownList.ToString
> End Function
>
> Then you can call the method from your main page like this:
> MyControl.MyDropDownListValue
>
> --
> I hope this helps,
> Steve C. Orr, MCSD
> [url]http://Steve.Orr.net[/url]
>
>
>
> "Sabre" <maximNOSPAM@wave.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:OC5Srv$RDHA.3144@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> > Hello All
> >
> > I've got a form with one user control embedded. Both contain textboxes,
> > dropdownlists and checkboxes. Short of using sessions (haven't tried
> > viewstate) what means can be used to pass values between? So if

checkbox1

> is

> > checked on the form, I'd like the user control to recognise this.

> Similarly

> > if a textbox on my user control contains text, I'd like to use this text

> in

> > my form.
> >
> > TIA
> > Graeme
> >
> >

>
>

[Sabre]

OK Steve. I've taken the easy route and declared controls as Public Shared
WithEvents within the user control and then referenced them from aspx form
like so:

WebUserControl1.DropDownList4.SelectedIndex =
WebUserControl1.DropDownList4.Items.IndexOf(WebUse rControl1.DropDownList4.It
ems.FindByText(Session("ID")))

That eliminated the errors ... now to overcome the "Event handler must be
shared because its WithEvents var is shared" in the ascx page it appears I
need to change the associated event to Public Shared like so:

Public Shared Sub DropDownList4_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As
System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
DropDownList3.SelectedIndexChanged

This seems fine too, but now I get the error "cannot refer to an instance
member of class within a shared method or shared member initializer without
an explicit instance of class" with all subs; sessions etc within the
procedure eg:
Button6_Click(sender, e) within the proc now errs.

I've tried a few things, but so far, to no avail. Can you or anyone else
help further?

Thanks again
Graeme



"Steve C. Orr, MCSD" <Steve@Orr.net> wrote in message
news:uIErZXASDHA.2252@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

> You could declare your the controls inside your user control as public
> instead of the default of protected.
> Then you can access them directly from your web form like this:
> MyControl.MyDropdown.ToString...
>
> But rather than unprotecting your controls you might want to take a more
> object oriented approach and make special methods on your user control to
> expose specific control values to the page.
>
> For example, if you have a public method in your user control like this:
> Public Function MyDropDownListValue() as String
> Return MyDropDownList.ToString
> End Function
>
> Then you can call the method from your main page like this:
> MyControl.MyDropDownListValue
>
> --
> I hope this helps,
> Steve C. Orr, MCSD
> [url]http://Steve.Orr.net[/url]
>
>
>
> "Sabre" <maximNOSPAM@wave.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:OC5Srv$RDHA.3144@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> > Hello All
> >
> > I've got a form with one user control embedded. Both contain textboxes,
> > dropdownlists and checkboxes. Short of using sessions (haven't tried
> > viewstate) what means can be used to pass values between? So if

checkbox1

> is

> > checked on the form, I'd like the user control to recognise this.

> Similarly

> > if a textbox on my user control contains text, I'd like to use this text

> in

> > my form.
> >
> > TIA
> > Graeme
> >
> >

>
>