How to "cast" a Control var referencing a Web User Control

I know that I can do this in order to add a Web User Control to a PlaceHolder at runtime:

Control c = LoadControl("..\\scripts\\controls\\FUWStepMonitor\\FUWStepMonitor.ascx");
msgbox.Controls.Add(c);

but afterwards, how do I reference the control inside the collection, such that I can get to the public methods of the Web User Control?

(( cast ??? } msgbox.Controls.FindControl[ ??? ]). some public method ( )

Tom Knowlton

Asked: 2007-11-20

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Tom KnowltonWeb developerAuthor Commented: 2007-11-20

Oooooookay:

This seems to work just fine:

((members_beta_scripts_controls_FUWStepMonitor_FUWStepMonitor)c).SetVisibleButtons(true, true, false, false);

Is there a way to "deal with" or provide an alias for that EXTREMELY LONG class name?

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AGBrownCommented: 2007-11-21

That's what you are stuck with unless you change the class name by going into the ascx.cs file, and then updating the .ascx file's "Inherits" attribute of the Control directive to reflect the new name.

VS Web Developer doesn't put classes into namespaces based on the folder hierarchy, instead it postfixes each folder name with an underscore and puts them all together into the name. I prefer to change that and create namespaces that reflect the folder hierarchy, and then you can use "using" statements, or similar, to denote classes. e.g.

using members.beta.scripts.controls.FUWStepMonitor;
...
((FUWStepMonitor)c).SetVisibleButtons....

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