modify visibility of master page controls from pages user control?

[Dabbler]

I have some hyperlink controls on a master page I need to disable till my
user has made some selections in a user control on a page based on the master
page. How do I reference the Hyperlink controls in the master page? How can I
get the Master Page to re-render itself after I've done this?

Thanks for any suggestions on this.

Dabbler

[Arthur Dent]

I would put either a public method on the master page to wrap the
hiding/showing logic, or wrap each hyperlink controls with
Public ReadOnly Property MyLink1 As HyperLink
get
return myHyperLink1
end get
End Property

then in the derived page there is a property (Me.MasterPage i think) which
you can cast to the specific type of your master page.

So with in the derived page you could do something like

CType(Me.Master Page, myMasterPageCla ss).MyLink1.Vis ible = (...some boolean
expression...)

If you have a base page class from which all your pages derive, you could
wrap the MasterPage cast in a property on that base class,
(this is only really simply feasible if you only use a single master page in
your application)
something like...

Class BasePageClass
...
Public ReadOnly Property MyMaster As myMasterPageCla ss
Get
Return DirectCast(Me.M asterPage, myMasterPageCla ss)
End Get
End Property
...
End Class
"Dabbler" <Da*****@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote in message
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>I have some hyperlink controls on a master page I need to disable till my
user has made some selections in a user control on a page based on the
master
page. How do I reference the Hyperlink controls in the master page? How
can I
get the Master Page to re-render itself after I've done this?

Thanks for any suggestions on this.

Dabbler