Please hepl, how can I access the masterpage usercontrol

ysfkay · May 12th, 2010, 05:53 PM

I have a usercontrol which is loaded into a placeholder when a menu item is clicked, how can I update another usercontrol which is on the masterpage when an item on the dynamically loaded usercontrol is clicked thanks.

samjudson · May 13th, 2010, 03:25 AM

If you know the ID of the other control you could use the FindControl method to get a reference to the other control.

Alternatively you could add an event to your user control which you page can then handle and pass information to the other control.

ysfkay · May 13th, 2010, 11:29 PM

Thanks, thats what I been trying to do, the problems is that
am a new asp developer, this masterpage access is what I hope to master
very soon, right now I need some really practically instructions if possible,
thanks.

samjudson · May 14th, 2010, 04:30 AM

The following will get you the control on the page if you know the ID. You can then call methods on it etc:

Code:

UserControl1 control = (UserControl1)Page.FindControl("UserControlID");
control.DoSomething();

ysfkay · May 16th, 2010, 07:34 PM

Thanks alote for the tip!!