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[Solved] Setting a public property of user control in grid insert/update mode

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answered on 13 Jul 2009, 03:07 PM

Hi Morten,

If you have defined public properties for your UserControl class, you can access them through the following way:

1. In your .ascx control markup file, set the ClassName property in the <%@ Register %> directive. This name defines the class name of your custom user control. Suppose I have a control named GridControl that I want to reference. I use:

    
            <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="GridControl.ascx.cs" Inherits="GridControl"  
        
                ClassName="GridControl"%>

2. In your including .aspx page, use two types of directives to register and reference the control type:

    
            <%@ Register Src="~/GridControl.ascx" TagPrefix="my" TagName="GridControl" %> 
        
            <%@ Reference Control="~/GridControl.ascx" %>

This is it. Now in the codebehind, my custom user control is referrable to its ID directly as specified on the page. In RadGrid's InsertCommand event, you can now use:

    
            GridControl myEditorControl = e.Item.FindControl("GridControl1") as GridControl; 
        
            //myEditorControl with all of its public properties and methods

This is all. Your user control is now usable just like any other server control or custom object.

Best wishes,
Veli
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answered on 31 Aug 2009, 03:11 PM

Hi all,

Actually, I didn't find the solution I was looking for.

I have the same need as the original poster, but the solution is not working for me. I have set up the code exactly as shown below but Visual Studio (2005) doesn't recognize the GridControl type. It has underlined GridControl in both places.

GridControl myEditorControl = e.Item.FindControl("GridControl1") as GridControl;

Also, I don't know what GridControl1 is supposed to refer to in the code above.

I don't know what to do.

Josh