Access masterpage control in contentpage codebehind

[Hardus Lombaard]

I have a masterpage called CaseManagement.Master and a content page called AppointmentSchedule. On my master page I have a textbox called txtPolicyNumber. How do I access this textbox from the content page's codebehind? "this.txtPolicyNumber" and "this.Master.txtPolicyNumber" doesn't work.

[Brij]

you acn access controls of master page like this

TextBox tb = (TextBox)Master.FindControl("txtPolicyNumber");

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[T M Gray]

You can expose it as a property. This is more efficient than using FindControl since it won't have to search through the control heirarchy.

public String MyTextBox
{
get
{
return txtPolicyNumber.Text;
}
set
{
txtPolicyNumber.Text = value;
}
}