access controls on another web user control

[Giorgio]

I have 2 web users controls in a page and I would like to get or set
the selected values of a few dropdown boxes and I also would like to
know how to access functions that are on aweb user control X from a web
user control Y, is this possible? How can I do it?

 

[chris]

For the first part, just make some public properties of your controls.
public TextBox TextBox1
{
get { return t1; }
set { t1 = value; }
}

Where t1 is the ID of your control. Then this control and all its
properties can be accessed from your web form.

As for the second part of the question, I don't think you can access
methods from one user control to another. I think they took this
ability away in 2.0 because it was tightly coupling user controls.
What I do is I use the Web form calling the user controls as the
middleman and have him take care of communicating data between the two
user controls.

HTH,
Chris