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Server Control Page_Load event

I know how you can change properties of server controls, but how about running an event in an Onload event of the aspx page where the control resides?  As it stands right now, If I do that, the control I am using is currently using the onload event in it's code and I can't use both.  If I could just all a method in the .cs file, then I could do it from the Onload event on the aspx page....Anyone have any ideas???  If this doesn't make any sence let me know, I'm just trying to call a method in a .cs file from the aspx file.
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Hopefully someone will tell me I am wrong in a minute, but I don't think you can use inline code AND a codebehind - which this sounds like what you want to do if I am reading your question right.

There are exceptions though.  For instance, if you are wanting to perform a special function on a value for a server control you can call the function like so:

<!-- example with a datagrid template column -->
<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="COLUMNNAME">
      <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# MySpecialFunctionName(DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.FIELDNAME")) %>'></asp:Label>
      </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>

In the codebehind, you would write your function like normal.  However, I know there is a slight difference in VB.Net where you need to make the function Public for the calling function to be able to call it, but I don't know if there are similar needs in CS.
Hrmmm. The following code worked for me - in the control
code I inserted a button and raised the SomeEvent from
its Click event.

    Control control = null;
    Type controlType = null;
    EventInfo eventInfo = null;

    Control control = this.FindControl("MyControl");

    Type controlType = control.GetType();
   
    eventInfo = controlType.GetEvent("SomeEvent");

    eventInfo.AddEventHandler(control, new
EventHandler(this.MyControl_SomeEvent));
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This is the aspx page:

<%@ Page Language="C#" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" Src="../scripts/WebForm1.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="fixedwithmenu" Debug="true"%>
<%@ Reference Control="../scripts/scholar.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="cyberakt" Namespace="CYBERAKT.WebControls.Navigation" Assembly="ASPnetMenu" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Confirmation</title>
<script language="c#" runat="server">
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
      BasicMenu.BuildBasicMenu(0, null);
      FrmScholar tmp = (FrmScholar)Page.LoadControl("../scripts/scholar.ascx");
      thefrm.Controls.Add(tmp);
}
 </script>
<%
String defpath = "../../main/";

      Response.Write(String.Concat("<link href='", defpath, "css/menuStyle.css' type='text/css' rel='stylesheet'>"));
%>
<link href="../../main/css/menuStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="../../main/css/default2.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>


in the onload event I am trying to initialize a control from an .ascx page, the following is the .cs file:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using CYBERAKT.WebControls.Navigation;
/*
<%@ Register TagPrefix="demos" TagName="Header" Src="~/common/page_fragments/header.ascx"%>
<demos:header id="pageHeader" SiteMapFile="menuDemos.xml" ProductLogo="logo_aspnetmenu.gif" runat="server"/>
*/
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for fixedwithmenu.
/// </summary>
public class fixedwithmenu : System.Web.UI.Page
{
  protected CYBERAKT.WebControls.Navigation.ASPnetMenu BasicMenu;

      private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
      {
    if (!IsPostBack)
    {
      BuildBasicMenu(0, null);  //initalize this to 0 and null for top level of menu
    }
      }
//recursive method to populate the menu
  public void BuildBasicMenu(int level, MenuGroup Groupie)
  {
    //newItem.CssClass = "TopMenuItem";
    //newItem.CssClassOver = "TopMenuItemOver";
            BasicMenu.DefaultGroupCssClass = "MenuGroup";
            BasicMenu.DefaultItemCssClass = "MenuItem";
            BasicMenu.DefaultItemCssClassOver  = "MenuItemOver";
            BasicMenu.DefaultItemCssClassDown = "MenuItemDown";
            OleDbDataReader DBreader;
            OleDbConnection DBconn = new OleDbConnection(String.Concat("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OleDb.4.0; Data Source=",Server.MapPath("~/../main/db/site.mdb"),";")); //"C:\\Inetpub\\NEWFOUNDATION\\main\\db\\site.mdb;"
            OleDbCommand DBquery = new OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM SiteLinks WHERE Link_Parent=@level ORDER BY Link_Order ASC", DBconn);
            DBquery.Parameters.Add("@level",Convert.ToString(level));
            DBconn.Open();
            DBreader = DBquery.ExecuteReader();
            
    CYBERAKT.WebControls.Navigation.MenuItem newItem;
    MenuGroup newGroup;            
            while(DBreader.Read())
            {
                  if(Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_Visible"]))//if true
                  {
                        if(Groupie == null)
                              newItem = BasicMenu.TopGroup.Items.Add(); //First Time, Null group
                        else
                              newItem = Groupie.Items.Add();
                  
                    //newItem.CssClass = "TopMenuItem";
                //newItem.CssClassOver = "TopMenuItemOver";
                        newItem.Label = (string)DBreader["Link_Name"];
                        
                        if(Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_Enabled"])) //If true
                        {
                              if(!Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_UC"])) // if false
                                    newItem.URL = (string)DBreader["Link_URL"];
                              else
                                    newItem.URL = String.Concat("UnderConstruction.aspx?","URL=" , (string)DBreader["Link_URL"], "&Name=", (string)DBreader["Link_Name"]);
                        }

                  //newItem.ID = String.Concat(Convert.ToString(level),Convert.ToString(tmpid),"item");
                  if(Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_HasChild"]) && Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_Enabled"]) && Convert.ToBoolean(DBreader["Link_Visible"]))//if all these previous are true
                  {
                        newGroup = newItem.AddSubGroup();
                        BuildBasicMenu(Convert.ToInt32(DBreader["Link_ID"]), newGroup );
                  }
                  }//closing bracket for first IF
            }
            DBconn.Close();
  }


In the Page_Load event in the CS file, the menu is loaded...The problem is that I can't get the two to both run, only 1 or the other.  I am currently looking over the information that  AerosSaga gave me, but perhapes, this would better explain the issue I am having...Thanks
Is there a way for me to call the BuildBasicMenu method from the cs page in the aspx page??
I guess you could always use inline scripting style in the .aspx page, but I'm not sure its gonna give you any different results.
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=\ kk, thanks for you help.
woops look like this won't be available until ASP.NET 2.0

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Tutorial/E80EC96F-1C32-4855-85AE-9E30EECF13D7.dcik
sorry I was late on that carbonice
Actually Aeros, I figured it out, I can call the method for the menu creation, BuildBasicMenu(int level, MenuGroup Groupie), from the aspx page, because it is code behind, the method is like it's on the page itself...Thanks a lot for you help though:

<%@ Page Language="C#" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" Src="../scripts/WebForm1.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="fixedwithmenu" Debug="true"%>
<%@ Reference Control="../scripts/scholar.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="cyberakt" Namespace="CYBERAKT.WebControls.Navigation" Assembly="ASPnetMenu" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Confirmation</title>
<script language="c#" runat="server">
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
     BasicMenu.BuildBasicMenu(0, null);          *******************Changed To -------------->   BuildBasicMenu(0, null); ********* Works just fine  ******
     FrmScholar tmp = (FrmScholar)Page.LoadControl("../scripts/scholar.ascx");
     thefrm.Controls.Add(tmp);
}
 </script>
<%
String defpath = "../../main/";

     Response.Write(String.Concat("<link href='", defpath, "css/menuStyle.css' type='text/css' rel='stylesheet'>"));
%>
<link href="../../main/css/menuStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="../../main/css/default2.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
ahhh.....glad to hear you got it working carbonice.  So you can use inline to call, just not to create if you have a codebehind I suppose.

Regards,

Aeros