asp.net usercontrols

Hello,

I am having problems trying to use a UserControl in asp.net. I created the control, then in my web form I added the following code to add the control:

-- code --
Control uc;

uc = LoadControl("MyControl.ascx");

this.phUserControl.Controls.Add(uc); // added the control to the placeholder
-- end code --


Ok, now the control is added, the control has an input text box named TextBox1. My webform has a button (btnSave), how can I have my btnSave's onclick event read the TextBox1.Text from the UserControl? Before you ask why I don't want to put the Save button on the user control, its because I will have different controls on the form and the save button will read all of them.

Please help if you can.

Thanks.
Thai

You can access the textbox in uc by accessing control property of us

so uc.Controls[INDEXNUMBER]

if u wanna use the texbox properties then u can cast it
(lets say the textbox is ur 5th control in the usercontrol
Textbox a = ((Textbox)uc.Control[4]);

oh and if u don't have access to uc object then u can do this

Textbox a = (Textbox)Page.Controls[INDEXGOESHEREDEPENDINGONWHENUINSERTUC].Controls[indexagain]

Thanks for the reply!

When I add the control to the webform, I can't even reference the uc. When I type <controname>. nothing comes up. The intellisense doesn't detect it.

On a side note, if I add the control via code.. how do I find the index of the user control on the webform?

Thanks!

well there are several wasy to do it..what i do is this

just loop through each item in the collection and print it's name using reflexion..and see which ones urs....


but i think if u can't reference it then there is something wrong with ur code .... post ur code and ill have a look at it

Hi James,

Can you send me an email to URL and I'll reply with my project attached? Its a small test project with 1 web form and 1 user control.

Thanks, I really appreciate your help.