User Controls/Design Best Practices

[NathanV]

In traditional ASP I used to pretty much replicate what is now being done in
ASP.NET 2.0 with the master pages. I would create a header include file that
included everything up to the main content cell, and a footerthat included
the rest. I've been creating header user controls in asp.net but have run
into problems.

1) How do I work around only being allowed 1 form for page? If my user
control has server controls and a form in it, and so does my page, how can
they co-exist?

2) How can I programmatically access elements (i.e. a label or panel) in
the UC from the page that holds the user control.

Thanks, I appreciate the help!

[DWinter]

Ok, I assume you have your UC declared something like this?
<uc1:myUserControl id="myUC" runat="server" />

Well you reference the controls in the UserControl part with
myUC.controlID.Value
where in the page that is hosting the user control would be just
controlID.Value.
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In traditional ASP I used to pretty much replicate what is now being done in ASP.NET 2.0 with the master pages. I would create a header include file that included everything up to the main content cell, and a footerthat included
the rest. I've been creating header user controls in asp.net but have run
into problems.

1) How do I work around only being allowed 1 form for page? If my user
control has server controls and a form in it, and so does my page, how can
they co-exist?

2) How can I programmatically access elements (i.e. a label or panel) in
the UC from the page that holds the user control.

Thanks, I appreciate the help!