Sharing ViewState data between controls

[ake_krakbar]

I´m trying to share variables between two custom controls in ViewState. Control A sets a ViewState variable upon an eventhandler and after that Control B accesses the same ViewState variable. The problem is that when the second control tries to get the value from ViewState it is null. I have checked that the value is set before i try to fetch it so that´s not the problem. Is there some kind of issue here that I don´t know about? Using Session variables worked just fine, but it´s important that the data is being stored per page so I have to use ViewState. /Jonas

[Guffa]

Each control has a ViewState collection, so if you want to access another controls ViewState, you have to use a reference to that actual control. If you put the value in the ViewState of the page, you should be able to reach it from any control. I haven't tried this though, so I don't know if it's even possible. If it is, you obviously can't use more than one set of those controls in each page, as they would collide otherwise. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

[ake_krakbar]

Thanks for your reply. I tried to access the page view state, but haven´t managed to do it. There are no Page.ViewState och Context.ViewState properties. Maybe ViewState isn´t the best place to store pagewide global data that should be shared between controls...