Hi.
I am trying to access the sqldatascource in the masterpage.
I try to do so by tipping in into a textbox on a contentpage.
i want the textbox text to change the sqldatascource selectcommand.
how can i access these objects through pages?

best regards

So long

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Ivan

What do you mean by "tipping in"?

In general you can access any control on the MasterPage from a Page by using the Page class' Master property and casting to the type of control you are accessing.

Example:

CType(Page.Master.FindControl("txtBxWhatever"), TextBox).Text

Sorry,

I haven't been to the U.S.A for almost a year now, i meant typing in, not tipping in.
I tryed your example, but i came to no conclusion. i have a Button named Button1 in the Masterpage.
And i have a textbox named textbox1 in the contentpage. I want to program an event that works as following:
By changeing the content in the textbox in the content page, i want to change the button name in the masterpage.

case2:
i am asking for this example because, i am trying to access a sqldatascource on a masterpage by event and change the selectcommand of this sqldatascource and the controltype by event.

best regards

Hi there,

Here's what you can do:

1. In the MasterPage, create a property called SelectCommand of type String.

2. In the Setter and Getter of this property get the command text from the underlying SqlCommand SqlDataSource control.

3. On your content page, add a MasterType directive like this:

<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/MasterPage.master" %>

Just add this to the top of the page, right below the Page directive and make sure it points to the correct master page.

4. The Code Behind has now strongly typed access to the master, so you can do something like this:

this.Master.SelectCommand = "Bla Bla Bla";

Hope this helps,

Imar


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