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FindControl method cannot locate the control on the page

Hello everyone, Ive tried searching for hours now and cannot find out why my code (aka, me.) is failing Basically... I have a listview control which I'm passing a datatable of products (ID, Name, Description and Price columns), and im trying to make it so that when the "checkout" button is pressed, it parses through all the controls on...

ASP.NET: How do I implement my own AssociatedControlID-like functionality?

I have two user controls A and B, where B depends on the existence of A in the same page. I'm trying to implement some functionality like this: <mine:A ID="IdOfTheAControl" runat="server" /> <mine:B BelongsTo="IdOfTheAControl" runat="server" /> I'm able to extract "IdOfTheAControl" but unable to get the actual control with that ID. I...

Have I to cache FindControl() result if I use it a number of times?

Does FindControl() work quick or not? Have I to cache a result using a property like this or not if I search and use the same control a number of time? private MyUserControl c; private MyUserControl MyC { get { if(c == null) c = (MyUserControl)FindControl("c"); return c; } } ...

change id of a server control in asp.net

Hai guys, I used find control to find a list item of an unoreder list inside a master page from content page using this, Control home = this.Page.Master.FindControl("list").FindControl("home"); Now i have to change the id of the control home to "current" because to apply css for it.... ...

Change text of a linkbutton in a repeater

I have a repeater which displays comments related to a post. I want to add some functionality where when the user click on the link it goes from: report this post to post has been flagged how do I access the specific lnkButton? Obviously in ItemDataBound this is easily done, but in the click method I'm not sure how I would do it. ...

How can i find a control in the footer template of a data repeater

ASPX : Code <asp:repeater id="repeater" runat="server"> <headerTemplate></headerTemplate> <itemtemplate></itemtemplate> <footerTemplate> <asp:literal id=findme runate=server> </footerTeplate> </asp:repeater> What i am looking for is source code to be able to find the control within the footer of a data repeater. Im...

DataGrid finding a control

HI I have a DataGrid (yes would be nicer if it was a gridview but nothing i can do about that) in the itemDataBound event i am adding a hidden field into the first cell of each row I am setting its ID based on something, and then saving its clientID in a List for later attempts to get the value from it but try as i might i cant find a...

how to add controls to the masterpage's content placeholder programmatically

On the base.master: <%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Base.master.cs" Inherits="WebApplicationControlTest.Base" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <...

Page.FindControl from WebServerControl

Hi All, I use a WebServerControl "CheckBoxCounter", which has the following method. But the method is unable to find the CheckBoxList on the page. I'm searching for an answer for nearly a day now... can you help me... The WebServerControl is in a namespace "AWT.AID.Services", but there is no namespace for the ASPX page / code Behind,...

ASP.NET Is there a better way to find controls that are within other controls?

Hello All, I currently have a dropdown inside an ascx control. I need to "find" it from within the code behind on another ascx that is on the same page. It's value is used as a param to an ObjectDataSource on ascx #2. I am currently using this ugly piece of code. It works but I realize if the conrtol order were to change or various othe...

Access Control inside GridView Pager Template - ASP.NET

Hi, I am trying to access a LinkButton that is inside a PagerTemplate in a GridView. However, I am getting a NullReferenceException and I don't know what I am doing wrong here. I have tried the following... ((LinkButton)GridView1.BottomPagerRow.FindControl("lnkbtnPrevious")); ((LinkButton)GridView1.FindControl("lnkbtnPrevious")); C...

Accessing data in RowCommand

Im new to C# and in VB i could do the following: Protected Sub DataGrid1_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.ItemCommand If e.CommandName = "CommandName" Then Dim label1 As Label = e.Item.FindControl("label1") Response.Writ...

FormView.FindControl() returns null until DataBind()

Why method FindControl() returns null on FormView until call DataBind(). After that it returns everything correctly? What workaround are there? Call DataBind() before first call of FindControl() ? ...

Find all child controls of specific type using Enumerable.OfType<T>() or LINQ

Existed MyControl1.Controls.OfType<RadioButton>() searches only thru initial collection and do not enters to children. Is it possible to find all child controls of specific type using Enumerable.OfType<T>() or LINQ without writing own recursive method? Like this. ...

Can't find control in code in super class

I have a number of pages <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="True" CodeBehind="MyPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="MyPage " MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" %> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="commonForm" runat="server"> <asp:Table runat="server"> <asp:TableRow> <asp:TableCell ID="cellControl" /> </asp:TableRow> </asp:Table> </asp:C...

Will this code get the value of the found control? asp.net syntax

x.Parameters.AddWithValue("@areasexpertise1", FindControl("AreasExpertise1")) It should find AreasExpertise1 and make a parameter, but does that get the selectedvalue too? ...

How to move ASP.NET PlaceHolder control from Page controls collection to a custom Control's output?

I am writing an ASP.NET custom control. In my custom control code, I find a PlaceHolder control in the page like so: this.myPlaceholder = Page.FindControl("placeholder1") as PlaceHolder; Then, I render the placeholder as the output of the custom control: protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output) { if (this.myPlacehol...

Set Custom ASP.NET UserControl variables when its in a Repeater

<%@ Register Src="~/Controls/PressFileDownload.ascx" TagName="pfd" TagPrefix="uc1" %> <asp:Repeater id="Repeater1" runat="Server" OnItemDataBound="RPTLayer_OnItemDataBound"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="LBLHeader" Runat="server" Visible="false"></asp:Label> <asp:Image ID="IMGThumb" Runat="server" Visible="false"></asp:Image> ...

Using Excel VBA to capture edit mode through checking the standard tool bar

I'm using this code to check if the standard toolbar is deactivated in the edit mode. CommandBarControl oNewMenu = Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").FindControl(1, 18, 1, True, True) If (IsNull(oNewMenu)) Then MsgBox "Edit mode enabled" End If but the FindControl function raise an error. Is there any conflict in...

Using C# FindControl to find a user-control in the master page

So all I want to do is simply find a user control I load based on a drop down selection. I have the user control added but now I'm trying to find the control so I can access a couple properties off of it and I can't find the control for the life of me. I'm actually doing all of this in the master page and there is no code in the default....