ASP.NET Retrieving values from dynamically loaded user control

[Joel Reinford]

I am working on an ASP.NET web app. One of the pages will
be using several user controls. The controls will be
loaded dynamically based on SQL Server data.

I need to be able to retrieve the values from the
individual fields in those user controls. So far I am not
able to access the controls at postback. Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

Joel Reinford

[Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT]]

Hello Joel,

Thanks for posting in the group.

Since the control(s) are added before the page is rendered (dynamically on
the server), they don't exist until you re-add them at some point before
the page is rendered. Page and its controls are created/rendered/destroyed
on every request and there is nothing in the framework that automatically
remeber which controls were previously loaded/created. So we need to create
it again in postback. It's just the way .NET works with dynamically added
controls.

Here are some sample code for your reference: (Please add control in
Page_Init method)

WebControl:
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace DynPanel
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WebCustomControl1.
/// </summary>
[ToolboxData("<{0}:WebCustomControl1
runat=server></{0}:WebCustomControl1>")]
public class WebCustomControl1 : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl,
INamingContainer
{
private RadioButtonList rblTemp = new RadioButtonList();
private Label lblTemp = new Label();

protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<P><B>"));

lblTemp.ID = "lblTest";
lblTemp.Text = "Label Test";
Controls.Add(lblTemp);

Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("</B>"));

rblTemp.ID = "rblTest";
rblTemp.Items.Add("A");
rblTemp.Items.Add("B");
rblTemp.Items.Add("C");
rblTemp.Items.Add("D");
Controls.Add(rblTemp);

Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<BR><HR>"));
}
}
}

Button1_Click Event:
private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
WebCustomControl1 wcc1Temp = ((WebCustomControl1)Panel1.Controls[0]);
RadioButtonList rblTemp =
((RadioButtonList)wcc1Temp.FindControl("rblTest")) ;
Response.Write(rblTemp.SelectedItem.Text);
}

I also used the OnInit event to load the composite control as well. Here
is the code used for that:
override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
//
// CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET Web Form Designer.
//
InitializeComponent();
base.OnInit(e);

WebCustomControl1 wcc1Temp = new WebCustomControl1();
Panel1.Controls.Clear();
Panel1.Controls.Add(wcc1Temp);
}

By the way, in the future, it would be best to post these questions in the
following newsgroup.

Microsoft.public.dotnet.aspnet

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Have a nice day!

Best regards,
Yanhong Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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