TextBox Protection Level

[hoyaabanks]

I have a webcontrol mycontrol.ascx that has the following textbox:

<asp:TextBox ID="Name" runat="server" Columns="15" />

When I try to access this value from the aspx page that uses the control, I get the following error:

Compiler Error Message: CS0122: 'ASP.Organization_Form_ascx.Name' is inaccessible due to its protection level

However I cannot seem to change the protection level of the textbox within the control. When I add this code:

<script language="c#" runat="server">
public TextBox Name;
</script>

I then get this error:

Compiler Error Message: CS0102: The class 'ASP.Organization_Form_ascx' already contains a definition for 'Name'

How do I go about changing the protection level of my TextBox so that I can access it in the aspx page that loads the control?

Thanks,

Alex

[persian_celina]

hi there,

to change the protection level in the ascx level u should go for it this way:
in the .ascx codebehind Change "protected" to "public" like the orange part below:

public class mycontrol : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
public System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox Name;

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{

// Put user code to initialize the page here
}

}

ok?
and then in the .aspx page:
first u add ur Usercontrol on the webform,then in the codebehind , u should add the orange part :

public class WebForm5 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton LinkButton1;
protected WebApplication1.mycontrol mycontrol1;
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
mycontrol1.Name.Text="it works!";
// Put user code to initialize the page here
}

Then As u can c up there in the green line,the textbox is recognized by it's ID and properties of a normal textbox in the .aspx codebehind.

G'luck!

[hoyaabanks]

Let's say I have a usercontrol that looks like this:

<LSB:OrderItem id="db5" runat="server" Name="Cowbells" Quantity="100|150|other" />

I can access the Quantity Variable in code with:

db5.Qty

This works because Quantity then sets a variable called Qty within the usercontrol. The above code returns and interger and works.

Now lets say I have a string variable that looks like this:

string myString = "db5";

Is there a way to use this string to reference the usercontrol? How can I get at db5.Qty using this string? I want to be able to do something like:

string myString = "db5";

Response.Write( "Quantity: " + myString.Qty );