Question

How can invoke user control’s public method from within the page?

I load the control dynamically inside OnInit on the page.Any ideas? For some reason I am getting a build error that says that the method doesn’t exist, even though it’s public. Starting to think that user controls are not worth all the hassle.

Answer 1

You’ve said

Control fracTemplateCtrl =     (FracTemplateCtrl)LoadControl('FracTemplateCtrl.ascx') fracTemplateCtrl.TestMethod(); 

you need to say

FracTemplateCtrl fracTemplateCtrl =    (FracTemplateCtrl)LoadControl('FracTemplateCtrl.ascx') fracTemplateCtrl.TestMethod(); 

Note that fracTemplateCtrl is declared as a FracTemplateCtrl, so visual studio knows that it has a TestMethod(). When it is declared as a Control, visual studio can’t make this assumption.