Brenden,
1- Define an event for your control that you raise whenever the
dropdownlist SelectedIndexChanged is handled,
2- Define a class that holds event data (which you can customize to hold
both the old and the new values of the dropdownlist)
3- Define an event delegate so that your page.aspx can subscribe to it and
collect the old and new values from your customized eventargs.
For a demo on this strategy:
http://www.societopia.net/Samples/Da...olsEvents.aspx
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HTH,
Phillip Williams
http://www.societopia.net http://www.webswapp.com
"Brenden Bixler" wrote:
I have a user control, dropdown.ascx
Inside dropdown.ascx, I have a dropdownlist control.
From my page.aspx, I need to be able to access the dropdown's value.
By setting it to auto-post back, I am able to grab this value using
Request.Form["Control:ddlValues"]. This worked well until I realized that I
needed the initial value in some cases. How do I access this value from the
page.aspx file?
Thank you very much.