Null Reference Exception Listing 1-10

tomche · September 26th, 2011, 06:33 AM

Hello All,

I just tried to use the following code from the book and received the error

Null Reference Exception was unhandled by user code.

My code is as follows.

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Listing1-10.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.Listing1_10" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
TextBox pp_TextBox1;
Calendar pp_Calendar1;

pp_TextBox1 = (TextBox)PreviousPage.FindControl("TextBox1");
pp_Calendar1 = (Calendar)PreviousPage.FindControl("Calendar1");

Label1.Text = "Hello " + pp_TextBox1.Text + "<br />" + "Date Selected " +
pp_Calendar1.SelectedDate.ToShortDateString();
}
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas?

Regards

Tomche

ChristianNagel · October 21st, 2011, 04:31 PM

Does the Null Reference Exception happen with the PreviousPage? Do you use this page with a previous page? If not, the PreviousPage is not set and thus FindControl fails.

I hope this helps,
Christian