highlight selected menu item problem?

[Paul Huynh]

Hi,
 I am new with telerik control. Here is my problem below:
   I designed my site using vS 2008 prof.
   The menu item was designed in webcontrol page (menucontrol.ascx). This control was embeded to masterpage (masterpage.master).
Default.aspx was created from masterpage.master.
   I want to highlight default.aspx page everytime user select on menu bar. I added the code below into my default.aspx.cs in Page_Load:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string item = Server.UrlDecode(Request["0"]);
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(item))
        {
             RadMenuItem currentItem = RadMenu1.FindItemByText(item);
             if (currentItem != null)
             {
                currentItem.HighlightPath();
             }
        }
    }

The problem is saying that "RadMenu1" does not exist in the current context. It's true, because the RadMenu1 was build inside Menucontrol.ascx page.
     I downloaded free trial

ASP.NET AJAX Q1 SP1 2009

Please help me to solve my issue.
Thanks alot.

[Daniel Plomp]

Hi Paul,

Why not adding the RadMenu directly inside the masterpage?

Then it is quite easy to reference it from the default.aspx page.

Something like this:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            RadMenu menu = (this.Master as MasterPage).FindControl("RadMenu1") as RadMenu;
        }
    }

-Daniel