How do I access a control from a class not other than WebForm1?

[Richard Dixson]

I created a web form and dropped a table in there called resultsTable. This
also resulted in the following being added to the Webform1 class:
public System.Web.UI.WebControls.Table resultsTable;

I can easily add rows and columns via C# programming from the WebForm1
class. However I cannot figure out how I can access this control outside of
this class.

For example, I have a different class called TestResult. As I create
TestResult classes from the Page_Load event, I want the constructor of
TestResult to add rows and columns to the resultsTable. However I can't
figure out how I can access the resultsTable from my TestResult constructor.

For example:

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Generate rows and cells.
TestResult[] TestResults = new TestResult[3];
TestResults[0] = new TestResult("Mike Brown", "Pass");
TestResults[1] = new TestResult("Jill Smith", "Did not attend");
...

So then in my TestResult constructor, as I receive the name and status (i.e.
Mike Brown, Pass) I want to add a row to the table for each person and set
the cells to these values, among other things that the constructor is doing.
I imagine I can pass a reference to the testResult table but that seems a
bit messy. Is there a better way? How can I talk to the testResults table
to add these rows/columns from a class other than the class testResults
table is defined in?

Thank you.

 

[Cowboy]

The easiest, IMO, would be to pass in the table object, by reference, to the
class you are using to add rows.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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[Richard Dixson]

I was thinking along those lines - just seems kind of messy. For example I
have:

TestResults[0] = new TestResult("Bill Brady", "Pass", resultsTable);
TestResults[1] = new TestResult("Jill Smith", "Did not attend",
resultsTable);

Just doesn't seem very elegant/programatically correct.

Isn't there some way that I could have the TestResult class call a method or
property in Webform to get a reference to the resultsTable. The more I
think about it that should be doable. For example if I add a getter to the
Webform class that returns a reference to the resultsTable, then I can use
that getter from my TestResult class to obtain a copy, right?

The easiest, IMO, would be to pass in the table object, by reference, to the
class you are using to add rows.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

************************************************
Think Outside the Box!
************************************************

I created a web form and dropped a table in there called resultsTable. This
also resulted in the following being added to the Webform1 class:
public System.Web.UI.WebControls.Table resultsTable;

I can easily add rows and columns via C# programming from the WebForm1
class. However I cannot figure out how I can access this control

outside

of
this class.

For example, I have a different class called TestResult. As I create
TestResult classes from the Page_Load event, I want the constructor of
TestResult to add rows and columns to the resultsTable. However I can't
figure out how I can access the resultsTable from my TestResult constructor.

For example:

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Generate rows and cells.
TestResult[] TestResults = new TestResult[3];
TestResults[0] = new TestResult("Mike Brown", "Pass");
TestResults[1] = new TestResult("Jill Smith", "Did not attend");
...

So then in my TestResult constructor, as I receive the name and status (i.e.
Mike Brown, Pass) I want to add a row to the table for each person and set
the cells to these values, among other things that the constructor is doing.
I imagine I can pass a reference to the testResult table but that seems a
bit messy. Is there a better way? How can I talk to the testResults table
to add these rows/columns from a class other than the class testResults
table is defined in?

Thank you.