Pass info to rad window from the server side code

[Ronnie]

I have a rad window that calls another aspx page with a control attached to it and I would like to pass info to the control with in that rad window.  Is this possible.  I have tried something like this, but am getting an "Object reference not set to an instacne of an object" error.

cntl_add_note.ascx User Control code:

<table style="width: 575px; height: 175px;">
    <tr>
        <td>
            Add Notes Section: <asp:Label ID="lblProjectID" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

This is the server side code that is calling the rad window:

RadWindow1.NavigateUrl = "~/note.aspx"
RadWindow1.Visible = True
RadWindow1.VisibleOnPageLoad = True
RadWindow1.Left = Unit.Percentage(50)
RadWindow1.Top = Unit.Percentage(50)
RadWindow1.Enabled = True
RadWindow1.Width = Unit.Pixel(600)
RadWindow1.Height = Unit.Pixel(300)

Dim lblProjectID As Label = DirectCast(RadWindow1.FindControl("lblProjectID"), Label)
lblProjectID.Text = "Test"

The 2 lines above are where I tried to insert "Test" into the label on the cntl_add_note.ascx User Control, but got the error.  Is it possible to pass the info to that control?

Thanks




 

[Georgi Tunev]

Hi Ronnie,

RadWindow is basically an IFRAME and like with the IFRAME and / or the browser's popup, the communication between the parent and the content page is done on the client. You can directly read some value on the server (on the content page) only if you pass it in the query string.

My suggestion is to implement the desired logic not by using RadWindow but a standard browser's popup (window.open()). Once it works as expected, the same approach will work with RadWindow as well.



Kind regards,
Georgi Tunev
the Telerik team

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