how come user control added to page doesn't get added to codebehind file?

[Bennett Haselton]

I create a new Web Form and drag a new Button onto it from the Web
Forms toolbox tab, and then I drag a new instance of the UserPost user
control that I created, by dragging and dropping the "UserPost.ascx"
file listing from Solution Explorer. Both controls show up on the Web
Form. But when I switch to the codebehind page, there is only a
declaration for Button1:

protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button1;

and not one for UserPost1. Is this a bug? A feature? I'm not too
lazy to type the declaration in myself, but anomalies like this are
sometimes a sign that I'm doing something wrong...

-Bennett

 

[John M Deal]

You aren't doing anything wrong. User controls that you create in ascx
file are different than custom controls that you drag in from the tool
box. You can see this in the way the designer displays the gray blob
for user controls as compared to the rendered output of the custom
controls. You do have to add the declaration yourself in order to
access the user control from codebehind. It is a pain in the back side
but it seems to be the way it is.

Have A Better One!

John M Deal, MCP
Necessity Software