How to access properties of a usercontrol in C#

Question

I\'ve made a C# usercontrol with one textbox and one richtextbox.

How can I access the properties of the richtextbox from outside the usercontrol.

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Answer 1

I recently had some issues doing this with a custom class:

A user control had a public property which was of a custom class type. The designer by default tries to assign some value to it, so in the designer code, the line userControlThing.CustomClassProperty = null was being automatically added.

The intent was to be able to provide the user control with a custom class at any point while running the program (to change values visible to the user). Because the set {} portion did not check for null values, various errors were cropping up.

The solution was to change the property to a private one, and use two public methods to set and get the value. The designer will try to auto-assign properties, but leaves methods alone.