Hi all

After reading chapter 4 I thought this is really simple but I must have missed something. What I have is a basic entry form in AddEngineer.ascx. I created properties for each control in AddEngineer.ascx.cs.
(I reduced to three properties for example)

using System;
using System.Web.UI;

public partial class AddEngineer : UserControl
{
    private string _name;
    private string _email;
    private string _web;

    public string Name
    {
        get { return _name; }
        set { _name = value; }
    }

    public string Email
    {
        get { return _email; }
        set { _email = value; }
    }

    public string Web
    {
        get { return _web; }
        set { _web = value; }
    }
    
     protected void Page_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        txtName.Text = Name;
        txtEmail.Text = Email;
        txtWeb.Text = Web;
    }
}

Then in .aspx.cs file:

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using ASP;

public partial class Admin_Industry : Page
{
    public admin_usercontrols_addengineer_ascx uc;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        uc.Name = "Some Name";
        uc.Email = "Some Email";
        uc.Web = "Some Email";
    }
}

No IntelliSense error but runtime error:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I'm guessing in aspx Page_Load the User Control hasn't loaded yet. I read the bit on "Simulating a Constuctor" and played around with it but havn't got it to work. If you read this and know can you alter the code I provided so I can get the idea straight away.

I can even set properties in Visual Studio's Property Panel but I need programmatic access and besides this should be simple. What did I miss?

AXE

I know it is a very old post but I have seen many guys asking how to do this and the answer is simple.

Register that usercontrol in the host page and create a control too. Later from code behind use the control id to call a public method in user control.

now in code behind

'newCargo1' is the control id of that usercontrol and 'showPopupNewCargo' is a public method in usercontrol.

Hope i was any helpful.