UserControl: FindControl cannot find the inner control

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If have a user control with a textbox. I instantiate this usercontrol on an aspx page.

Now the page load event looks like this:

C#

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           TrialControl tc = new TrialControl(); //This is my Usercontrol

           Label labelUctext = (Label)(tc.FindControl("labelText1"));
           if (labelUctext != null)
           {
               if (labelUctext.Text != String.Empty)
               {
                   labelText.Text = labelUctext.Text;
               }
           }
       }

Here labelUctext always holds NULL. thus it is not able to find the inner label. Extremely basic question, but what am I doing wrong?

Posted 10-Jul-13 0:50am

sameerkulkarni777

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Neeraj Pandya · Answer 1 · 2013-07-10T01:24:00

Solution 1

add this method into your usercontrol.cs and call this method
like this
string str=usercontrol.AddProperty;

C#

public string AddProperty
    {
        get
        {
            return labelText1.Text;
        }
        set
        {
            labelText1.Text = value;
        }
    }

Posted 10-Jul-13 1:24am

Neeraj Pandya

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sameerkulkarni777 10-Jul-13 8:23am

@Neeraj, Nope man. Now at runtime it points to labelText1.text inside the property 'AddProperty', saying

'Object reference not set to an instance of an object'

Pradeepkumar patil sonu · Answer 2 · 2013-07-10T01:42:00

Solution 2

foreach (GridViewRow gr in grdroomavail.Rows)
{
(Literal)tt=((Literal)gr.FindControl("ltrroom") as Literal).Text
}

Posted 10-Jul-13 1:42am

Pradeepkumar patil sonu