Referencing Repeater Data in a User Control from a Page

[BigJohn]

I have successfully displayed text boxes in a repeater. The repeater is in a
User Control. The User Control is in a container which references a master
page.

I have another user control which contains text boxes. For this one, the
simple syntax of:
dim ctlWork as Textbox
ctlWork = ctype(Me.ctnInformation.FindControl("txtFName"), Textbox)
strWork = ctlWork.Text

In the case where I am having problems, the objects are laid out as follows:

Page Level:

<asp:Content ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1"
runat=server>
<table width="100%" border="1" bordercolor=black >
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<uc2:RegistrationE11 ID="RegistrationE11_1"
runat="server" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</asp:Content>


User Control:

<Table ID="tblE1Data" Border=0 Width="100%" runat=server >
<tr id="rowE1Update" runat=server>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtFName" runat=server MaxLength=100
Width=140px></asp:TextBox> (textbox is filled in codebehind)
<td>
<asp:Repeater ID="repUpdate" runat=server>
<HeaderTemplate >
<table width=100% border=0>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate >
<tr>
<td>
<asp:textbox ID="RegIDE1" runat=server
Text=<%# Databinder.Eval(container.dataitem, "RegID") %>></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate>
</table>
</FooterTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</td>
</tr>
</Table>


The intention is to have the user udpate the text boxes (there is more to
this project than what is shown of course), click the Update button on the
page, and apply the changes.

I tried Me.RegistrationE11_1.FindControl("RegIDE1") but the resulting type
is Nothing.

What is the syntax to look at all the textbox "RegIDE1" values from the
repeater on the user control in the main page?

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello John,

From your description, you're encountering some problem when try to access
a TextBox in the repeater control's template and the repeater is inside a
usercontrol which are used in the main page, correct?

Based on the code your provided, I think the problem here is that you
directly try locating the "Textbox"(which is inside repeater's
itemTemplate) through UserControl.FindControl method. This won't work since
you need to first get reference to the repeater control, and then locate
the certain RepeaterItem (since it will contains multiple RepeaterItem
after performing databinding). After that, you can call "FindControl"
method on the RepeaterItem instance to locate the TextBox. So the code
will look like below:

===================
Dim rpt As Repeater
rpt = RegistrationE11 .FindControl("repUpdate")

If Not rpt Is Nothing Then

For Each item As RepeaterItem In rpt.Items

Dim txt As TextBox = item.FindControl("RegIDE1")

txt.Text = txt.Text & "_updated"

Next

End If

End Sub
====================

Anyway, the basic rule is that if the control you want to locate is nested
in another control(which has implemented INamingContainer interface), you
need to find that control first and then call FindControl recursively to
locate its child controls.

BTW, for inspecting the control hierarchy in ASP.NET page, you can turn on
the output trace in the @Page directive. This is very help since it will
display the complete ASP.NET server control tree of the current page. You
can get the path you need to go through when try locating a control:

<%@ Page Language="C#" ............................. Trace="true"%>

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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