Get Set Property value being lost

asn187 · April 19th, 2007, 06:20 AM

have the following property on my aspx page

private bool isFeaturedItem = false;
        protected bool IsFeaturedItem
        {
            get
            {
                return isFeaturedItem;
            }
            set
            {
                isFeaturedItem = value;
            }
        }

when I set the property value to true
it defaults back to false on a postback

how can i maintain this value of the property whatever it is?

Imar · April 19th, 2007, 03:09 PM

Hi there,

You can make it a ViewState property that uses ViewState as the backing variable instead of a private variables, like this:

Code:

    public bool IsFeaturedItem
    {
        get
        {
            object isFeaturedItem = ViewState["IsFeaturedItem"];
            if (isFeaturedItem != null)
                return (bool)isFeaturedItem;
            else
                return false;
        }
        set
        {
            ViewState["IsFeaturedItem"] = value;
        }
    }

HtH,

Imar

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