Hi!

This is related to Chapter 9, page 307 and onwards. I am trying to create a ContactForm so that an e-mail can be sent to the user with the information he/she has typed in.

The thing is, my TextBoxes are in FormViews, and my Code Behind says the TextBoxes are not declared, which they are (they all have ID's).

I have created a ContactForm.txt file in my App_Data folder, but I don't have a ContactForm.ascx file, is that really necessary? Can't I just include the ContactForm CodeBehind code in my aspx Code Behind file?

What do I need to do?

Help would be much appreciated!

Cheers
Peter

Hi Peter,

Controls in a FormView are not available direcly to outside code. Instead, you need to use FindControl to find your text box controls in the FormView:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...132dca8f7438ee

Do you really need the FormView? It makes things morre difficult in this case.

Cheers,

Imar

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