Getting the parent name inside a user control in ASP.NET (VB.NET)

[jimf1inmd]

Good afternoon. For some reason, I have run into a brick wall trying to figure this out. I have a user control on a WebForm. I want to find out the name of WebForm on which the control is placed. I know that in WinForms, you can get the parent name by using the following convention (VB.NET) Dim mstrWhichForm as String = Me.FindForm().ToString The above will give you {NameOfProject}.{NameOfForm}, Text: {TextOfForm} I know that in WebForms you have access to Page (System.UI.Web.Page) within the control but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get the same type of information from the WebForms environment. I am pretty sure that it is something easy that I am missing, but I figure I would post just in case somebody else knew the answer. Thanks, Jim.

[minhpc_bk]

Hi there, Basically, the FindForm method gives you the fullname of the form and the value of the Text property. However, the Page classs does not have any Text property, it just has a Title element defined in the markup of the page, so I think you may be interested in the value of this element. There are two things here that you want to know at runtime: + The fullname of the Page object, it can get done via the Page property of the control as you already know:

string fullname = this.Page.GetType().BaseType;

+ The inner text of the title element, here I do that by first declaring a public Title property for each page.

protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl title;

public string Title
{
get{return title.InnerText;}
}

The title element in the html editor is something like this:

<title runat="server" id="title"> Page Title</title>

Then this value can be easily retrieved at runtime:

Page page = this.Page;
Type type = page.GetType();
string title = type.GetProperty("Title").GetValue(page, null) as string;

And what you need is something like:

string info = fullname + ", Title: " + title;

You now can easily wrap it up in a helper method. In addition, you can also create your own custom base class and override the ToString method. This method basically does the same thing as above.

[jimf1inmd]

Thanks, I knew about but it slipped my mind last week. Also, I figured there must be an easier way. I will go through the code later today or tomorrow and I will repost if I have any questions. Thanks again, Jim. </x-turndown>