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Programatically Modifying a User Control's Color Attribute

Hello! Any advice appreciated, as I am stuck. I have a simple user control (properties.ascx) in C# builder that looks like this:

<script language="C#" runat="server">
      public string Color = "cyan";
      public string Text = "This is a user control... really!";
</script>

<p>
<font color="<%= Color %>">
<%= Text %>
</font>
</p>

I am calling the control from Default.aspx page like so:

<%@ Page language="c#" Debug="true" Codebehind="Default.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="CraftingUserControls.WebForm1" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="InformIT" TagName="SomeText"
      Src="properties.ascx" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<script language="C#" runat="server">
      private void Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) {

            UserCtrl1.Color = "green";
            UserCtrl1.Text = "This control's properties were set programmatically!";
      }
</script>

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Borland ASP.NET Designer for c# Package Library 7.1">
</head>

<body ms_positioning="GridLayout">
<input style="Z-INDEX: 1; LEFT: 86px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 115px">
<informit:header id=userControl1 runat="server">
</informit:header>
<informit:statusbar id=userControl2 runat="server">
</informit:statusbar>
<informit:sometext id=userControl3 runat="server">
</informit:sometext>
<informit:sometext id=userControl4 runat="server" color="red">
</informit:sometext>
<informit:sometext id=userControl5 runat="server"
text="This is quite cool!">
</informit:sometext>
<informit:sometext id=userControl6 runat="server" color="blue"
text="Ain't It?">
</informit:sometext>
<informit:sometext id=UserCtrl1 runat="server">
</informit:sometext>
<form runat="server">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here is the mystery: every instance of the control works, except the last one, where I attempt to modify the color and text attribeaut's (attributes) programatically.

What am I doing wrong?

TIA,
Dave

raterus

Ahh let me guess, you are new to ASP.net and you are coming from an ASP background?

It's good you are using usercontrols, but I wouldn't start there first. Everything in asp.net revolves around controls, there really isn't any need to use syntax such as <% %> anymore, in fact you should avoid it at all costs. The proper way to do this would be something like this, using a label control.

<script language="C#" runat="server">
public string Color
{
get{return lblTest.ForeColor;}
set{lblTest.ForeColor = value;}
}

public string Text
{
get{return lblTest.Text;}
set{lblTest.Text=value;}
}
</script>

<p>
<asp:label id="lblTest" runat="server" />
</p>

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laotzi2000

The real reson is that Page_Load is not even called.

Try change
AutoEventWireup="false"
to
AutoEventWireup="true"

However, I think raterus's idea is for the long run, you should change your programming paradigm in asp.net

DHolland6

ASKER

Thanks, Guys! I figured it out independently, but feel a tad more welcome now.

- DH