Accessing _Default page from a child derived from UserControl (Express 2005)

[RKT]

(Web Developer Express 2005, CSharp, C#)

I've searched high and low...

If have the typical _Default page. In it is a MultiView that contains
another MultiView - in both of those are Views containing my specialized
UserControls.

In any of those views, I need to acess the _Default page (parent, several
times removed). I would like a strongly typed mechanism, but at this point,
would settle to downcast it.

But I can't seem to be able to use it's 'type' in an expression without the
compiler complaint that the type is not known.

I have tried various efforts to define, reference or import the namespace
including the @Directives in the .ascx files. The only mechanism that seems
valid results in a complaint of circular reference.

(Have seen MasterPage-related directive that may work, but not using that
architecture (yet...))

Is there a prescribed method to do this?

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

see this:

Understanding Page Inheritance in ASP.NET 2.0
http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/3016.aspx

The solution is described almost at end of the post.

Summarized:

- Create a base class for your _Default Page (class inheriting from
System.Web.UI.Page) and place it in App_Code
- make your _Default page to inherit from thios base page class
- When accessing the Page from user control, use Control's own Page property
but cast to the base type

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
"RKT" <ss****@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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(Web Developer Express 2005, CSharp, C#)

I've searched high and low...

If have the typical _Default page. In it is a MultiView that contains
another MultiView - in both of those are Views containing my specialized
UserControls.

In any of those views, I need to acess the _Default page (parent, several
times removed). I would like a strongly typed mechanism, but at this
point,
would settle to downcast it.

But I can't seem to be able to use it's 'type' in an expression without
the
compiler complaint that the type is not known.

I have tried various efforts to define, reference or import the namespace
including the @Directives in the .ascx files. The only mechanism that
seems
valid results in a complaint of circular reference.

(Have seen MasterPage-related directive that may work, but not using that
architecture (yet...))

Is there a prescribed method to do this?

[Teemu Keiski]

And to add,

there's also "Implementing Base Pages" thread in this newsgroup (started Jan
21st) where I have demonstrated the mechanism you could also apply.

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke
"RKT" <ss****@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:_D******************@bignews5.bellsouth.net.. .

(Web Developer Express 2005, CSharp, C#)

I've searched high and low...

If have the typical _Default page. In it is a MultiView that contains
another MultiView - in both of those are Views containing my specialized
UserControls.

In any of those views, I need to acess the _Default page (parent, several
times removed). I would like a strongly typed mechanism, but at this
point,
would settle to downcast it.

But I can't seem to be able to use it's 'type' in an expression without
the
compiler complaint that the type is not known.

I have tried various efforts to define, reference or import the namespace
including the @Directives in the .ascx files. The only mechanism that
seems
valid results in a complaint of circular reference.

(Have seen MasterPage-related directive that may work, but not using that
architecture (yet...))

Is there a prescribed method to do this?