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Grabbing a property from an aspx page to an ascx toolbar in VB

I have a web page (aspx)- Purchasing page, with a ascx toolbar - Export Toolbar, that is used to export the data (either .xls or .csv).

I need to grab the Name of the Supplier from the Purchasing page and insert that value into the name of the export file on the ascx toolbar.

On the Purchasing page there is a ddl where the user can select the supplier and a grid that will display all the data. Above the grid there is the tool bar with an export button. I need to be able to grab the text of the dropdown list and utilize that on the ExportToolbar.ascx.vb page so I can take that text and insert it into the name.

I was trying to use a public property get and set method but it was not working. How would I go about grabbing that selected text from the Supplier ddl?

Solution

  • What I ended up doing was this-

    On the ascx page I created a public property-

     Public Property SupplierSelection As String
         Get
            Return Convert.ToString(ViewState.Item("SupplierSelection"))
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As String)
        ViewState.Add("SupplierSelection", value)
    End Set
End Property

    And then on the aspx page I added this on the load grid event-

    SupergridToolbar1.SupplierSelection = ddlStrategy.SelectedItem.Text.ToString()

    I was then able to use the Supplier Selection on the ascx page. Thanks for the help!