i have made a user control and put it in Aspx wep page, so when the page_load event of the web page happen i populate the user control public variables under condition it's the first time to load the page by checking:
If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
'populating the user control public variables
end if

but when any request to the srver happen the page loads again and the user control public variable is empty:(

any one have a sol. to pass this problem

Ahmed Ali
Software Developer

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Ahmed Ali
Senior Software Developer

How are you implementing your "public variables"? If all you have are simple variables, their values do get lost. When the page posts back, controls get their values from ViewState. However, your variables don't use this, so they won't keep their value.

You could something like ViewState["MyProperty"] = MyProperty to store that data. On PostBack of the control, check the ViewState for each property and restore its value.
Alternatively, depending on the purpose of the control, you could assign the values of the public properties for the control on PostBack of the page as well.

Cheers,


Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

The best way I've found to implement this is to use the public variable on the control to directly expose the control field you need.

Public Property MyTextBox_Text() As String
    Get
        Return MyTextBox.Text
    End Get
    Set(value As String)
        MyTextBox.Text = value
    End Set
End Property

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Yeah, that would work well, but only for properties that directly map to a Server Control nested in the User Control.

If you're trying to maintain state of your own properties, you'll need to use ViewState or some other state mechanism.

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Good point, my bad for not recognizing that in the original post.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

thx Imar,Peter
from your views that i cant do what i need else storing in one property of the control:(

Ahmed Ali
Software Developer

You can do what you want to do. If your goal is to be able to make this call during one page hit (postback or first time)...

ucMyUserControl.MyProperty = "..."

Then you want to make this call in a following postback...

something = ucMyUserControl.MyProperty

you must use Imar's suggestion. You need to manually handle storing that value in the page's viewstate so that the value can be restored.

You need to store those values when something happens on the page that changes a value. So in your user control public property accessors you can save the value to ViewState:

Public Property Property1() As String
    Get
        Return m_Property1InternalVar
    End Get
    Set(ByVal Value As String)
        m_Property1InternalVar = Value
        ViewState("Property1InternalVar") = m_Property1InternalVar
    End Set
End Property
'Repeat for all properties

In page_load, conditionally restore the property value(s):

Private Sub Page_Load(...) Handles MyBase.Load
    ...
    If IsPostback Then
        m_Property1InternalVar = ViewState("Property1InternalVar")
        'Repeat for all internal variables
    End If
End Sub

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.