Accessing a checkbox in an ascx 1

[NuJoizey]

I designed a custom control that combines a calendar control, a textbox, and a checkbox control called myCalendar.ascx.

I want to capture whether or not this checkbox is checked or not and pass it as a boolean (or bit?) to a stored procedure which returns results based on it.

I am successfully passing the value of my textbox control called txtToDate by using

<asp:ControlParameter ControlID="cphMenu3[COLOR=red]$calDatePicker$txtToDate" [/color]Name="ExpDate" PropertyName="Text" Type="DateTime" DefaultValue="cphMenu3$calDatePicker$txtToDate"  />

in other words, txtToDate lives on a my custom control object called $calDatePicker that lives in myCalendar.ascx, which in turn is sitting on my aspx page

But this does not seem to work with the checkbox.

I have no idea how to refer to my checkbox called chkApply and pass the value to my sproc as a paramter

I tried $calDatePicker$chkApply.checked in the aspx, but that didn't work. I also noodled around on the server side with Page.FindControl("chkApply") to no avail.

I'm totally stuck! What am I missing?

 

[ca8msm]

Try creating public properties in your user control that expose the values of the embedded controls.


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[NuJoizey]

while i understand this in concept, I haven't been able to find a code example that makes sense to me when it comes to actually doing this. Can anybody point me towards a resource?

 

[NuJoizey]

ok, well i figured out that this is the format to do a property - I put this in my ascx codebehind within the Partial Class delcaration:

    Public Property myProperty() As String

        Get            
            Return Me.chkApply.Checked
        End Get

        Set(ByVal Value As String)
            Me.chkApply.Checked = Value
        End Set

    End Property

You have to have the Get and the Set Statement for it to work.

Then in the aspx file it shows up in my intellisense as a property for my calendar control, and then I can do this

Response.Write(Me.calFromDate.myProperty.ToString)

apparently, this is common knowledge, and I guess that's why I had trouble finding it, because nobody seems to ask this question.

So I leave this post for all the struggling dummies out there like me, if there are any.

 

[ca8msm]

It's all detailed in the help files if you ever need anything like this.


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[NuJoizey]

thanks ca8. The help files are helpful if you know what the common or official termininology about what you are trying to accomplish. Being still a relative newbie to .NET, i didn't even know that what I needed was to "create a public property that exposed the values of the embedded controls" Once you pointed me on that path, I could search using those phrases, but still, it seemed to take me an inordinate amount of time to find really simple basic example. You see that what I needed was quite simple, but finding it wasn't! ARRGH!

 

[ca8msm]

I understand. However, I just found the link to that particular article by searching for "ASP.NET User Control" in google and it was the first hit. Usually though, I just start at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/asp.net/default.aspx

and have a search there.


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[NuJoizey]

i must be exceptionally bad at goolging. not good for a programmer

 

[ca8msm]

i must be exceptionally bad at goolging

And spelling


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[NuJoizey]

ha ha veri funee

;-)