I have created my first asp.net UserControl that I will use in several places throughout my app. It contains a FormView to display fields of the record in a DataTable.
It all seems fine, except, I can't figure out how to set the DataSource on the FormView that is within the UserControl. I want to set the DataSource in a method in code-behind.
I see from intellisense that the UserControl does not have a DataSource property, but it does have a DataBind method. I can imagine that one might need to set different DataSources on multiple controls within a UserControl, so there must be some method for drilling into a UserControl, but I cannot figure it out.
Here is the aspx code:
<%@ Register src="Controls/JobDetail.ascx" tagname="JobDetail" tagprefix="uc1" %>
...
<uc1:JobDetail ID="UserControlJobDetail" runat="server" />
...
Here is the method that attempts to set the DataSource:
public void BindJobRecord(string SelectedJobNo)
{
UserControlJobDetail.DataSource = LMDataClass.GetJob(SelectedJobNo);
UserControlJobDetail.DataBind();
}
And here is the UserControl:
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="JobDetail.ascx.cs" Inherits="DwgDatabase.JobDetail" %>
<asp:FormView ID="fvJobDetail" runat="server" DataKeyNames="job_num">
<ItemTemplate>
<div style="float: left; border-width: 1px;" class="LabelStyle TextBoxStyle" >
<table>
<tr>
<td><asp:label runat="server" ID="lblJobNo" Text='Job No' /></td>
<td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtJobNo" Text='<%# Eval("job_num") %>' /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><asp:label runat="server" ID="Label2" Text='Customer' /></td>
<td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtCustNo" Text='<%# Eval("cust_num") %>' /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><asp:label runat="server" ID="Label3" Text='Quote No' /></td>
<td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtQuoteNo" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "quote_no", "{0:00000;;.}") %>' /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><asp:label runat="server" ID="Label4" Text='Po No.' /></td>
<td><asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="TextBox4" Text='<%# Eval("p_o_num") %>' /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:FormView>