referencing a user control: ASP.NET 2.0

[Jimi]

Hi, I have a user control on my page and all I would like to do is call one
of its public methods.

in 1.1 I would just go...

((MyUserControlType)(NamedInstanceOfControl)).PublicMethod();

e.g. as a trivial example

((string)(_myStringInstance)).ToLower();

However in 2.0 I cannot seem to get a reference to MyUserControlType as it
does not appear in the intellisense. Even latebinding does not work..

Any help appreciated
Cheers
Mark

 

[brian.f.oneil]

You should not need to cast the type of that control.
Your syntax should be something like : MyString =
MyControl1.Property1.ToString().

That is the start. Then the issue of not seeing it in Intellisense is
common. Try switching to design mode and double-clicking the control.
That will put an "OnLoad" event handler for the control in your code
which you can go back and erase. I used to have your same problem in
1.1, and solved it always by adding an instance variable in the code as
in :

Protected MyControlType MyControl1;

Look in the markup for your page and make sure you have a Tag
Registration for the control at the top of the page.

HTH,
Brian

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

Use the @Referencesdirective on the page and point it to the ascx, ala:

<%@ Reference Control="controls/blah.ascx" %>

There's also a beta Web Application Project that mimics the 1.x model for
2.0:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/

Karl

 

[Jimi]

Hi, yes I do actually already have this

<%@ Register Src="UserControls/UploadDrivers.ascx" TagName="UploadDrivers"
TagPrefix="uc2" %>

I think the difference is between 1.1 where each page was a class and in 2.0
where a page is a partial class.

All I want to be able to do is (Say I have a usercontrol called
UploadDrivers1 on my page) is do the following in code behind:

((UploadDrivers)(UploadDrivers1)).PublicMethod();

However in the codebehind page I cannot get a reference to the UploadDrivers
class.
e.g. If I type in UploadD and then wait for intellisense to pick up that
there is a class called UploadDrivers nothing happens. It's like VS cannot
figure out that there is in fact a class called UploadDrivers (hence my
reasoning that the partial classes have something to do with the problem).

I checked that my UploadDrivers was not under some obscure namespace but it
is not..

Thanks for you help
Cheers
Mark


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[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

I said "Reference" Not "Register"

Karl

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http://www.openmymind.net/

Hi, yes I do actually already have this

<%@ Register Src="UserControls/UploadDrivers.ascx" TagName="UploadDrivers"
TagPrefix="uc2" %>

I think the difference is between 1.1 where each page was a class and in
2.0 where a page is a partial class.

All I want to be able to do is (Say I have a usercontrol called
UploadDrivers1 on my page) is do the following in code behind:

((UploadDrivers)(UploadDrivers1)).PublicMethod();

However in the codebehind page I cannot get a reference to the
UploadDrivers class.
e.g. If I type in UploadD and then wait for intellisense to pick up that
there is a class called UploadDrivers nothing happens. It's like VS cannot
figure out that there is in fact a class called UploadDrivers (hence my
reasoning that the partial classes have something to do with the problem).

I checked that my UploadDrivers was not under some obscure namespace but
it is not..

Thanks for you help
Cheers
Mark


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net> wrote in message news:[email protected]...

 

[Jimi]

Thanks for your help Kal

Cheers
Mark
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