I have a control that I load dynamically on a page within a Placeholder based on a users previous selection. It works fine, but I need to pass the control a parameter and don't know how to do this since its created on the fly...

e.g.,

Placeholder1.Controls.Add(LoadControl("mycontrol.a scx")) works fine but I need to do something like:

Placeholder1.Controls.Add(LoadControl("mycontrol.a scx?myval=valuehere"))

I get error saying the control must have an .ascx extension...


I also tried this using one of the controls properties:

Dim c As Control
c = ParseControl("<uc1:mycontrol id='Mycontrol1' runat='server' myval='" & strValue & "'></uc1:mycontrol>")
Placeholder1.Controls.Add(c)

and this gives me the error:
Parser Error. Unknown server tag 'uc1:mycontrol'.

???

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Hi,

The User control doesnt cant have a diifernt Query string. you can access the same of the page.

You can also pass paramater by creating properites for the user control and then use find control to set the params

Prashant

Along of the lines of what Prashant is saying...

Create a public property on your control:

   Public Property myval
      ...
   End Property

Then you load your control similar to how you have done but to a declared variable of the control class type:

   Dim ctlMyControl As MyControl
   ctlMyControl = CType(LoadControl("mycontrol.ascx"), MyControl)

Then you can set your property:

   ctlMyControl.myval = "valuehere"

Then add the control to the placeholder:

   Placeholder1.Controls.Add(ctlMyControl)

-Peter

Thanks to both of you I'll give that a try!

:D

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