find child control

[Jon Paal]

i have a textbox control inside a custom server control that needs to be prefilled with content.

how do i find this child control ?


<ew:cp id="ccp2" TitleText="" runat="server">
<asp:TextBox id=TB1" runat="server" />
</ew:cp>

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Your best bet may be to expose the text property of the textbox instead. You
would do this as a property for the control such as:

public string TextBoxText
{
get
{
return TB1.Text;
}
set
{
TB1.Text = value;
}
}

I've found that this works nicer than trying to find controls since you
don't have to worry about testing for null values.

 

[Jon Paal]

i have no way of using that type of coding.

what's the vb inline code equivalent of this ?


sub page_load()

public string TextBoxText
{
get
{
return TB1.Text;
}
set
{
TB1.Text = value;
}
}

End sub

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Jon,
It's just a property definition. In VB it would be:

Public Property TextBoxText() As String
Get
Return TB1.Text
End Get
Protected Set(ByVal value As String)
TB1.Text = value
End Set
End Property

You define this in the user control. It's not to be placed within any other
function such as page_load. It's considered a function by itself. To set it,
you would use
sub page_load()
ccp2.TextBoxText = "some text"
End sub

within the page that contains the usercontrol it.


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Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006