How to access page controls from user control?

Question

Is there a way to access page controls from user control . I have some controls in my page and i want to access these controls from the user control .

Answer 1

There are actually several ways to accomplish this:

Create a public property in your user control

public Button PageButton { get; set; }

Then assign it in the page's OnInit or OnLoad method

myUserControl.PageButton = myPageButton;

You can make the control public and unbox Page:

public Button PageButton { get { return this.myPageButton; } }

In the user control:

MyPage myPage = (MyPage)this.Page;
myPage.PageButton.Text = "Hello";

The slowest, but easiest way would be to use FindControl:

this.Page.FindControl("myPageButton");