Urgent - call aspx function from ascx

just asking .. should myfunction need to be public?

it is public

intellisense actually likes the above code and suggests i can call it but it just won't compile

Ah ok... now it works..

CompleteReportPhotos pg = (CompleteReportPhotos)this.Parent.Page;
pg.returnItemCategories(-1,-1);

How strange. I think VS.NET got slightly confused between compliations.

put the function in a separate public module, then it will be accessible from every file of the application

actually, if the UserControl is grabbing data from the Page, I would encourage using interfaces...
1. That way any other page that implements the interface can call the user contro1
or
2. when the page implements the interface, you can call the values from the page.

as in
public class MyPage : Page, IMyPage
{
 
      #region IMyPage implementation
      string IMyPage.CategoryId
      {
            get { return ViewState["CategoryId"] == null ? string.Empty : (string)ViewState["CategoryId"]; }
      }
      #endregion
}

public interface IMyPage
{
      string CategoryId { get; }
}

public class MyUserControl : UserControl
{
      protected Label Category;
      private IMyPage PageInterface
      {
            get { return this.Page; }
      }
      
      private void Page_Load(object sender,EventArgs e)
      {
            if (! this.IsPostBack)
            {
                  this.Category.Text = this.PageInterface.CategoryId;
            }
      }
      
      private void Page_Init(object sender,EventArgs e)
      {
            IMyPage _interface = this.Page as IMyPage;
            if (_interface == null)
                  throw new ApplicationException("Parent Page Must Implement The IMyPage Interface");
      }
      
}

That way, you are controlling from the page what data gets sent to where...a very elegant delivery pathway if i might say so...

Isn't that with just

myaspxpage = (myaspxpage)this.Page;
myaspxpage.Function1();

should be working?