User Control and Parent

[Joe Fallon]

What is the code to read a field value of the Parent Page from an embedded
User Control?
I can use reflection to get it, but I thought there would be an easier way.
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Joe Fallon

[Chris Jackson]

A UserControl has a Parent property, which you can use to get a reference to
the parent. If you then cast this as the type of your parent class, you can
access any public members of that class.

....
ParentPage myParent = this.Parent as ParentPage;
if (myParent != null) {
myParent.SomeMethod();
}
....
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Chris Jackson
Software Engineer
Microsoft MVP - Windows Client
Windows XP Associate Expert
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"Joe Fallon" <jf******@nospamtwcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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What is the code to read a field value of the Parent Page from an embedded
User Control?
I can use reflection to get it, but I thought there would be an easier
way.
--
Joe Fallon

[Joe Fallon]

Thanks Chris, I will give it a shot.
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Joe Fallon

"Chris Jackson" <chrisjATmvpsDOTorgNOSPAM> wrote in message
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A UserControl has a Parent property, which you can use to get a reference to the parent. If you then cast this as the type of your parent class, you can access any public members of that class.

...
ParentPage myParent = this.Parent as ParentPage;
if (myParent != null) {
myParent.SomeMethod();
}
...
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Chris Jackson
Software Engineer
Microsoft MVP - Windows Client
Windows XP Associate Expert
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"Joe Fallon" <jf******@nospamtwcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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What is the code to read a field value of the Parent Page from an embedded User Control?
I can use reflection to get it, but I thought there would be an easier
way.
--
Joe Fallon