In page, you should either embed the value in the HTML tags (ASP.NET tags)
or use Init (not Page Load) to set the value.
In the control, you can be a bit more lax and do not have to aim for Init(),
but it probably will not hurt you.
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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/
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<kenfine@nospam.nospamwrote in message
news:Oke5vZO5GHA.2208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Quote:
>I want to use codebehind to pass property values to a control that I've
>embedded INSIDE of a user control.
>
In other words, let's say I have the following:
>
MyPage.aspx
...with the following control placed on it...
MyUserControl.ascx
... and inside of MyUserControl.ascx, is an instance of ....
MyCommercialUploadControl1
>
I want to be able to write a property to the embedded commerical
component:
MyCommercialUploadControl1.TargetFolder
>
I want to be able write this property programmatically from the aspx page
that originally called the instance of MyUserControl, as follows:
>
[from MyPage.aspx]
MyUserControl.TargetFolder = @"c:\whatever";
>
Failure #1: I attempted to add logic to the codebehind for my .ascx that
read the value of a property attached to itself, and then mapped that
value to the embedded commercial control, e.g.
>
MyCommercialUploadControl1.TargetFolder = this.TargetFolder
// "this" refers to the ascx instance
>
This did not work.
>
Failure #2: I experimented with various scenarios involving doing the
mappings onPreInit, thinking I might be running into a page lifecycle
issue. This did not work either.
>
I can successfully write properties to the user control iself, but I
haven't figured out how to write properties to controls INSIDE of the
control. In all cases the debugger indicates null values where i want my
properties to end up. Can anyone help?
>
Thank you.
-KF
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