dynamically writing property values to a control INSIDE of a user control?

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.a scx
.... and inside of MyUserControl.a scx, is an instance of ....
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1

I want to be able to write a property to the embedded commerical component:
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1.Tar getFolder

I want to be able write this property programmaticall y from the aspx page
that originally called the instance of MyUserControl, as follows:

[from MyPage.aspx]
MyUserControl.T argetFolder = @"c:\whateve r";

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.

MyCommercialUpl oadControl1.Tar getFolder = this.TargetFold er
// "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

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

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.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/

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<ke*****@nospam .nospamwrote in message
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>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.a scx
... and inside of MyUserControl.a scx, is an instance of ....
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1

I want to be able to write a property to the embedded commerical
component:
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1.Tar getFolder

I want to be able write this property programmaticall y from the aspx page
that originally called the instance of MyUserControl, as follows:

[from MyPage.aspx]
MyUserControl.T argetFolder = @"c:\whateve r";

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.

MyCommercialUpl oadControl1.Tar getFolder = this.TargetFold er
// "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

Ah, good, thank you so much. Writing Page_Init() method for the aspx page
indeed solved the problem, like this:

protected void Page_Init()
{
PictureUploader AndProcessor1.P athVirtual =
"~/ni/apps/xxx/images/submitted/";
}

User controls seem so powerful in allowing you to build parameterized,
generic , reusuable functionality. It's too bad these little gotchas trip up
us newbies. I wonder if there's a way that the VS.NET IDE could cue you to
the right practices: maybe you could help it figure out intent with xml
markup or something.

Anyway, thank you very much. Now to finish my abstracted
uploading-and-image-resizing-and-cataloguing widget. ;)

-KF

"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)" <No************ @comcast.netNoS pamMwrote in
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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.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/

*************** *************** *************** ****
Think Outside the Box!
*************** *************** *************** ****
<ke*****@nospam .nospamwrote in message
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>>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.a scx
... and inside of MyUserControl.a scx, is an instance of ....
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1

I want to be able to write a property to the embedded commerical
component:
MyCommercialUpl oadControl1.Tar getFolder

I want to be able write this property programmaticall y from the aspx page
that originally called the instance of MyUserControl, as follows:

[from MyPage.aspx]
MyUserControl.T argetFolder = @"c:\whateve r";

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.

MyCommercialUp loadControl1.Ta rgetFolder = this.TargetFold er
// "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