app_code, modify element on aspx page

Question

Hope this comes out clear enough.

I am new to this all.

I have a asp.net and c# project, in the app_code i have a class userInterface.cs, what i need to do is the folowing:

In that class i need to get a certain page

NewPage.aspx

, and to modify some asp elements on that page.

Currently i have this:

Page p = (Page)HttpContext.Current.Handler;    

Not sure what else i need in order to get the page. the page i want is called NewPage.aspx.

I will appreciated any answer.

even something to google in order to find will be great. i dont know were to start from....

Answer 1

You may be able to access the page through HttpContext, but that's probably not a good approach. As other posters have noted, just use a method and pass in a reference to the control.

To answer your question though, you can try something like this:

if (HttpContext.Current.Handler is Page)
{
    Page currentPage = (Page)HttpContext.Current.Handler;
    if (currentPage != null)
    {
        //depending on where the control is located, you may need to use recursion
        GridView gridView = currentPage.FindControl("GridView1");
    }
}

I must reiterate that this probably isn't a good approach though, for a myriad of reasons. I did want someone to answer your actual question though, so there it is.