Populate Properties of User Controls in Wizard Demo

[jfkrueger]

Hello,

I'm following the Wizard demo to create a Wizard using RadTabStrip and RadMultiPage. I have a RadComboBox that the user will select a value from that needs to be passed to each control as it is loaded so that the correct data is loaded/saved. Normally I would have the control declared on the page and then just set the properties in code, ie:

Normally the control is declared in markup like this:

<MyControls:GroupSelector runat="server" id="GroupSelectorControl">

GroupSelector.GroupNumber = "0003"

Then I would just set the property in code like the above snippet...

However, with the Wizard example the controls are being dynamically loaded so I'm not sure how to pass what the user has selected from the RadComboBox to the individual controls that populate the tabs. I suppose I could use a session variable but would prefer to just set a property on the control so the control is more reusable.

Thanks!

[Peter]

Hi Joe,

I assume you have the RadComboBox control in the default aspx page. In that case, you can access it from any user control using the Page.FindControl() method. For example suppose you want to prepopulate the address textbox of the Education user control:

EducationCS.ascx.cs

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            RadComboBox combo1 = Page.FindControl("RadComboBox1") as RadComboBox;
            addressTextBox.Text = combo1.SelectedItem.Text;
        }

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

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[Atlas]

I just wanted to point out that I am doing the same thing, and your example does not work but this does:

Parent.FindControl