Dynamically added usercontrols not persisting.

[Dave Isackson]

Hi,
I am new to telerik. I have a TabStrip control in a web content page. I need to add several user controls dynamically to each tab. They need to be added after the pageview is created so I can't use the dynamic control load example in the demos as this assumes you are only adding the control at the time the pageview is created. I can add the user controls at page_load and it works fine and postback is ok. However, when I add any controls via my "NEXT" button the control only persists until the next postback.

How can I persist these user controls through a postback?

My ASPX snippet:

<

 

telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server"/>

 

 

 

 

<div id="RadTabDiv">
<telerik:RadTabStrip Style="position: absolute; top: 84px;" ID="RadTabStrip1" SelectedIndex="0" runat="server" MultiPageID="RadMultiPage1" Height="100%" Width="100%">

 

 

 

<Tabs>

 

 

 

</Tabs>

 

 

 

</telerik:RadTabStrip>

 

 

 

<telerik:RadMultiPage Style="position: absolute; top: 134px;" ID="RadMultiPage1" runat="server" SelectedIndex="0">

 

 

<telerik:RadTextBox Runat="server">

 

 

</telerik:RadTextBox>

 

 

</telerik:RadMultiPage>

 

 

</div>

 

 

<div id="Next" style="padding: 20px; float:right">

 

 

<asp:Button ID="btnNext" runat="server" Text="Next" CssClass="Button" />

 

 

</div>

 

 

One of the user controls I am adding:

<%

@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="QuestionTextbox.ascx.vb" Inherits="CSS.QuestionTextbox" %>

 

<%

 

@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>

 

 

 

<div style="height:50px">

 

 

 

<asp:Label ID="lblQuestion" runat="server" Text="Question:"/>

 

 

<asp:Label ID="lblQuestionText" runat="server" Text="??????"/>

 

 

<br />

 

 

<telerik:RadTextBox ID="txtAnswer2" runat="server" Width="200"/>

 

 

<telerik:RadComboBox Runat="server"></telerik:RadComboBox>

</

 

 

div>
My Code behind (if it helps). In this example I am hardcoding the Tabs and usercontrols but in the final app these will be dynamically generated via a list held in external data.

 

 

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    If Not Page.IsPostBack Then

        AddTab(

"General")

 

 

 

        AddTab(

"Check Nearby SCNs")

 

 

    End If

         AddControls()

 

End Sub

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private Sub AddTab(ByVal tabName As String)

    Dim tab As New RadTab()

    tab.Text = tabName

    RadTabStrip1.Tabs.Add(tab)

 

 

 

    Dim pageView As New RadPageView()

    pageView.ID = tabName

    RadMultiPage1.PageViews.Add(pageView)

 

 

 

End Sub

 

Private Sub AddControls()

    Dim ProcessID As Integer = 20

    Dim TaskID As Integer = 10

    Dim Pageview As RadPageView = FindControl("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$General")

    Dim ucQuestion As UserControl = Page.LoadControl("UserControls/QuestionTextbox.ascx")

 

    ucQuestion.ID =

 

"uc" & ProcessID & TaskID

 

 

 

 

 

    Dim lblQuestionText As Label = ucQuestion.FindControl("lblQuestionText")

    lblQuestionText.Text =

 

"What is your name?"

 

    Pageview.Controls.Add(ucQuestion)

    TaskID = 20

 

    Dim ucQuestion2 As UserControl = Page.LoadControl("UserControls/Statement.ascx")

    ucQuestion2.ID =

 

"uc" & ProcessID & TaskID

 

 

    Pageview.Controls.Add(ucQuestion2)

    TaskID = 30

 

 

 

    Dim ucQuestion3 As UserControl = Page.LoadControl("UserControls/QuestionDropdown.ascx")

    ucQuestion3.ID =

 

"uc" & ProcessID & TaskID

 

 

    Pageview.Controls.Add(ucQuestion3)

    TaskID = 50

 

 

 

    Dim txt1 As New TextBox

    txt1.Text =

 

"THIS IS THE TEXT"

 

    Pageview.Controls.Add(txt1)

 

    Dim Pageview2 As RadPageView = FindControl("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$Check Nearby SCNs")

    TaskID = 40

 

 

 

 

    Dim ucQuestion4 As UserControl = Page.LoadControl("UserControls/QuestionTextbox.ascx")

    ucQuestion4.ID =

 

"uc" & ProcessID & TaskID

 

 

    lblQuestionText = ucQuestion4.FindControl(

 

"lblQuestionText")

 

 

    lblQuestionText.Text =

 

"What is your name?"

 

 

 

    Pageview2.Controls.Add(ucQuestion4) 

 

 

    Dim btnNext As Button = FindControl("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$btnNext")  

    btnNext.Enabled = 

 

True

 

 

 

End Sub

 

 

 

 

Protected Sub btnNext_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles btnNext.Click

 

 

 

    Dim Pageview As RadPageView = FindControl("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$General")

 

 

 

    Dim ucQuestion As New UserControl

 

    ucQuestion = Page.LoadControl(

 

"UserControls/QuestionTextbox.ascx")

 

    ucQuestion.ID =

 

"uc" & Now

 

 

 

    Dim lblQuestionText As Label = ucQuestion.FindControl("lblQuestionText")

 

    lblQuestionText.Text =

 

"Time is: " & Now

 

    Pageview.Controls.Add(ucQuestion)

 

End Sub

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks
Dave

[Yana]

Hi Dave,

Dynamically added user controls should be added on every postback with the same ID. I've attached a simple page to demonstrate how to achieve this, download it and examine it.

Greetings,
Yana
the Telerik team

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[Dave Isackson]

Thanks Yana,

I will have a look at the code.

regards

Dave