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  • S simsen

    I have an aspx page where I do many things - I create projects which are listet in a gridview. When I click on a button in the gridview, I want to load a user control with the projectId I selected on the pages gridview. The user control is a page, where I load the parameters from the database and then can edit these. To load the parameters from the database in the user control, I need the projectId, wich only exists on the aspx page. I will now parse the projectId If I do it "the old way" I could do this by: <crm:SetProject runat="server" id="SetProject" ProjectId="500" /> and the projectId"500" is passed to the user control........But my problem here is I don't know what the projectId before I hit the button.....

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    Ashish Sehajpal
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    what are u talking about? its not clear... USER Controls are used to make abstraction in a complex logic. the dot net architecture suggests that if one needs to pass some value to UC (user control) and then there is something to be processed in UC and after some event the user needs some value to be read form the UC......the only way is :-> create user control UC -> declare a public property named INPUTVAL for getting input -> declare another proerty named OUTPUTVAl for producing some output/operation of filling dropdownlist -> define a method for processing something named as BINDUC() -> use the UC on an .aspx page -> pass the projectID as ....... UC1.INPUTVAL= dropdownlist1.selectedValue // may be from anything else -> now the processing in the UC will take place...RIGHT in ur case...... so call the method -> UC1.BINDUC() -> Read the value from UC in the variable on .aspx page -> projectIDUC=UC1.OUTPUTVAl its over ! hope it will help...

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    • S simsen

      I have an aspx page where I do many things - I create projects which are listet in a gridview. When I click on a button in the gridview, I want to load a user control with the projectId I selected on the pages gridview. The user control is a page, where I load the parameters from the database and then can edit these. To load the parameters from the database in the user control, I need the projectId, wich only exists on the aspx page. I will now parse the projectId If I do it "the old way" I could do this by: <crm:SetProject runat="server" id="SetProject" ProjectId="500" /> and the projectId"500" is passed to the user control........But my problem here is I don't know what the projectId before I hit the button.....

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      Christian Graus
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      Your core issue as far as I can see, is that you are setting your property in page load, which is too early. Trying to do it in the prerender event may solve your issue, but I still don't get why a user control is needed to change a setting on the aspx

      Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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        Your core issue as far as I can see, is that you are setting your property in page load, which is too early. Trying to do it in the prerender event may solve your issue, but I still don't get why a user control is needed to change a setting on the aspx

        Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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        simsen
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        I'm sorry I don't explain myself so good (my english is not SO good)... For me it is simple - I have a usercontrol..... Normally i would do this....... <crm:SetProject runat="server" id="SetProject" ProjectId="500" /> on an aspx page to load the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId = 500 - I then in the user control can use the 500 to do something with this..... My problem is - when I do it this way - the parameter will always be 500 - And I don't know what the parameter is at page load time....... I first know what the parameter is when I hit a button on the page........ So when I hit the button - I need to make an instans of the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId="9999"

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          I'm sorry I don't explain myself so good (my english is not SO good)... For me it is simple - I have a usercontrol..... Normally i would do this....... <crm:SetProject runat="server" id="SetProject" ProjectId="500" /> on an aspx page to load the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId = 500 - I then in the user control can use the 500 to do something with this..... My problem is - when I do it this way - the parameter will always be 500 - And I don't know what the parameter is at page load time....... I first know what the parameter is when I hit a button on the page........ So when I hit the button - I need to make an instans of the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId="9999"

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          Christian Graus
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          simsen wrote:

          So when I hit the button - I need to make an instans of the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId="9999"

          So, you set it in code when you create the control. ProjectId must be a public property, or it would not be available from the aspx. Why can't you just set it in code ?

          Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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            simsen wrote:

            So when I hit the button - I need to make an instans of the usercontrol with the parameter ProjectId="9999"

            So, you set it in code when you create the control. ProjectId must be a public property, or it would not be available from the aspx. Why can't you just set it in code ?

            Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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            simsen
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            Now we are getting to my problem........ I don't know how to set it when I create the control..... I tried many things but each time it sais - it dosn't know the SetProject.ProjectId.... I use these to lines to create the control from codebehind....

            Control setproject = (Control)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx");
            phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject);

            But when I then try to make a setproject.ProjectId the system cannot find the ProjectId - the error sais something like this: System.Web.UI.Control doesn't contain a definition of 'ProjectId'

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            • S simsen

              Now we are getting to my problem........ I don't know how to set it when I create the control..... I tried many things but each time it sais - it dosn't know the SetProject.ProjectId.... I use these to lines to create the control from codebehind....

              Control setproject = (Control)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx");
              phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject);

              But when I then try to make a setproject.ProjectId the system cannot find the ProjectId - the error sais something like this: System.Web.UI.Control doesn't contain a definition of 'ProjectId'

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              Christian Graus
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              simsen wrote:

              Control setproject = (Control)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx"); phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject);

              There is your problem. The Control class does not contain this property. You need to cast to the type of your specific control, to be able to access the properties that exist in your control and not the base class.

              Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                simsen wrote:

                Control setproject = (Control)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx"); phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject);

                There is your problem. The Control class does not contain this property. You need to cast to the type of your specific control, to be able to access the properties that exist in your control and not the base class.

                Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                simsen
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                I don't understand that you say that the control doesn't contain this property..... If you see the ascx.cs you can se I have made a public property?

                using System;
                using System.Data;
                using System.Configuration;
                using System.Collections;
                using System.Web;
                using System.Web.Security;
                using System.Web.UI;
                using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
                using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
                using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

                public partial class UserControls_TestSetProject : System.Web.UI.UserControl
                {
                private string _ProjectId = "";

                public string ProjectId
                {
                    get { return \_ProjectId; }
                    set { \_ProjectId = value; }
                }
                
                protected void Page\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
                {
                    lblEditProjectNameHeadline.Text = ProjectId;
                }
                

                }

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                • S simsen

                  I don't understand that you say that the control doesn't contain this property..... If you see the ascx.cs you can se I have made a public property?

                  using System;
                  using System.Data;
                  using System.Configuration;
                  using System.Collections;
                  using System.Web;
                  using System.Web.Security;
                  using System.Web.UI;
                  using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
                  using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
                  using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

                  public partial class UserControls_TestSetProject : System.Web.UI.UserControl
                  {
                  private string _ProjectId = "";

                  public string ProjectId
                  {
                      get { return \_ProjectId; }
                      set { \_ProjectId = value; }
                  }
                  
                  protected void Page\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
                  {
                      lblEditProjectNameHeadline.Text = ProjectId;
                  }
                  

                  }

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                  You should buy a book on OO and read it then. You are creating an instance of your control, but your local reference, is a reference to a base class. It therefore does not know that the class instance is a specific derived class, it could be any class derived from Control. Until you cast it up to the class thhat contains that property, it will not be visible. If you do this: ((UserControls_TestSetProject )myControl).ProjectId = "Blah"; it will work, assuming your variable is called myControl. For the reasons I have explained.

                  Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                    You should buy a book on OO and read it then. You are creating an instance of your control, but your local reference, is a reference to a base class. It therefore does not know that the class instance is a specific derived class, it could be any class derived from Control. Until you cast it up to the class thhat contains that property, it will not be visible. If you do this: ((UserControls_TestSetProject )myControl).ProjectId = "Blah"; it will work, assuming your variable is called myControl. For the reasons I have explained.

                    Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                    simsen
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                    Thank you very very much...... It was what I needed...... Now I only have to figure out, how I get it without to have to push the button twice (I know it's becauce of the page_load comes before the btnPush_Click and I have to make an instans of the user control each time I load the page) I wil use some times of this problem before I get back to this forum for help.... But again thank you very much for your help. It helped me very much :-)

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                    • S simsen

                      I have a problem how I get the user controls parameter from codebehind (when I make a dynamic instans of this) on the page. My user control ascx file:

                      <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="TestSetProject.ascx.cs" Inherits="UserControls_TestSetProject" %>

                      <center><h3><asp:Label ID="lblEditProjectHeadline" runat="server" Text="Projektdetaljer for"></asp:Label>
                      <asp:Label ID="lblEditProjectNameHeadline" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label></h3></center><br />

                      My user control ascx.cs file:

                      using System;
                      using System.Data;
                      using System.Configuration;
                      using System.Collections;
                      using System.Web;
                      using System.Web.Security;
                      using System.Web.UI;
                      using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
                      using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
                      using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

                      public partial class UserControls_TestSetProject : System.Web.UI.UserControl
                      {
                      private string _ProjectId = "";
                      public string ProjectId
                      {
                      get { return _ProjectId; }
                      set { _ProjectId = value; }
                      }

                      protected void Page\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
                      {
                          lblEditProjectNameHeadline.Text = ProjectId;
                      }
                      

                      }

                      My test aspx page:

                      <%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MPHead.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Test.aspx.cs" Inherits="Content_Test" Title="Untitled Page" %>
                      <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">
                      <asp:Label ID="lblNewProjectEditProjectId" runat="server" Text="" Visible="false"></asp:Label><br /><br />
                      <asp:Button ID="btnPush" runat="server" Text="Push me" OnClick="btnPush_Click" />
                      <asp:PlaceHolder ID="phNewProjectEdit" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
                      </asp:Content>

                      My test aspx.cs file:

                      using System;
                      using System.Data;
                      using System.Configuration;
                      using System.Collections;
                      using System.Web;
                      using System.Web.Security;
                      using System.Web.UI;
                      using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
                      using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
                      using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

                      public partial class Content_Test : System.Web.UI.Page
                      {
                      protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
                      {
                      Control setproject = LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx");
                      phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject);

                      }
                      protected void btnPush\_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
                      {
                          lblNewProjectEditProjectId.Text = "15855";
                      }
                      
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                      Broken Bokken
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                      You aren't setting the ProjectId property on the control when you create it. Try moving everything to the button's click event, like this: protected void btnPush_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { UserControls.TestSetProject setproject = (UserControls.TestSetProject)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx"); setproject.ProjectId = "15855" phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject); }

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                        You aren't setting the ProjectId property on the control when you create it. Try moving everything to the button's click event, like this: protected void btnPush_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { UserControls.TestSetProject setproject = (UserControls.TestSetProject)LoadControl("~/UserControls/TestSetProject.ascx"); setproject.ProjectId = "15855" phNewProjectEdit.Controls.Add(setproject); }

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                        simsen
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                        Hi Josh When I try this, an then click on a button that is in the user control the control disappear... How can I get the user control to appear again (I have to get the user control from it self)

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                          Thank you very very much...... It was what I needed...... Now I only have to figure out, how I get it without to have to push the button twice (I know it's becauce of the page_load comes before the btnPush_Click and I have to make an instans of the user control each time I load the page) I wil use some times of this problem before I get back to this forum for help.... But again thank you very much for your help. It helped me very much :-)

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                          Christian Graus
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                          simsen wrote:

                          I know it's becauce of the page_load comes before the btnPush_Click and I have to make an instans of the user control each time I load the page)

                          Like I said, call it in the prerender event instead, it comes after the button clicks

                          Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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