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  sinclairgf

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  Get Parent ViewState in User Control

  Aug 21, 2003 02:03 PM|LINK

  I have a page that I store a value in the ViewState and I want to get this ViewState value in a User Control that I have. How do I do this. Seems like something basic but I can not get it to work. In the code behind page for the parent I set the viewstate like so -> ViewState["color"] = "blue"; How do I get this value in a user control that I am using in my parent page? Thanks in advance, George
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  joteke

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  Re: Get Parent ViewState in User Control

  Aug 21, 2003 07:38 PM|LINK

  Page and user control have separate ViewState collections (every control has its own ViewState collection) so you can't set value in Page's ViewState collection and get it in user control's. Instead, you could create a public property in the user control that the page can then access that means read/set and that way provide the data for the UC.
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  sinclairgf

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  Re: Get Parent ViewState in User Control

  Aug 21, 2003 09:05 PM|LINK

  To funny. That is what I implemeted untill I found out how to do it the right way. I guess that was the right way. thanks again.