hello!

i wonder if anybody can help me with this... it's a little problem i have with an aspx page and a usercontrol

i already loaded my usercontrol from MyControl.ascx into myPage.aspx with this:

MyControl control;
control = (MyControl)LoadControl("MyControl.ascx");
placeHolder1.Controls.Add(control);

to here, everything it's ok... so, my user control has a gridview and i want to raise its events on the page I'm loading the user control but i can't, for example; i want to use the SelectedIndexChanged event of the gridview in the user control in the page that is loaded, or i also want to use the gridview properties but i can't...

what can i do if i want to do all this??

i hope you understand my problem and help me...

thanks a lot!

BR

What do you mean you can't? Also is there any reason why you MUST use LoadControl? Normally you only use this if the control you need to load is not determined until runtime.

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in fact, i need to load my user control at runtime... that's the reason i used LoadControl()

Thats great, but you didn't answer the more important of the two questions.

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i didn't mean "i can't" but, "i can't do it YET", because i've been searching on forums and some other pages on the web...

thanks


BR

I assume you are trying to access these properties/events from the container page? Is there any reason why you cant deal with these things from inside the user control itself?

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If you want events from within your user control to be handled by the page then you need to handle the event for the sub control (e.g. gridview inside user control) and then raise an event you define on the user control.

Then you can add that new event in code in your page load. You must also set the control's ID so that the events can be hooked up by the asp.net engine.

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Hi BR,

I also don't know what you mean by "can't do it". You don't know how? You're getting errors? If so what errors? You're not getting the result you expected?...

I went through a similar scenario a few weeks ago where I wanted to load controls at runtime and it just became really complicated and problematic to manage the control load, it's state, etc. on postback of the .aspx page.

After many hours of searching and advice from smarter people than me, I admitted defeat. My/their solution was to drag the controls onto my page and hide/show them as needed. This was a viable solution as I only had a couple of controls and having 2 or 3 on the page VS having only one loaded at runtime isn't very expensive.

Anna