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Asked: 2026-05-11T17:58:02+00:00

I created a web control, and it needs some data from its parent page.

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I created a web control, and it needs some data from its parent page.
How can it access that data?

Update: Thank you for the quick solutions, however they don’t work for me. Visual Studio doesn’t recognize the name of the page as a class. I took the name from where the class is defind:

public partial class Apps_Site_Templates_CollegesMain : cUICommonFeatures

(cUICommonFeatures inherits from System.Web.UI.Page)

But in the control, when I define 

        protected System.Web.UI.Page parentPage;
        parentPage = (Apps_Site_Templates_CollegesMain)Page;

I get a compliation error:

The type or namespace name ‘Apps_Site_Templates_CollegesMain’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I feel like I’m missing something really basic here, and I’ll probably be very embarrassed when I get an answer, but I do need help….

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  1. Editorial Team

    Controls should be written to be independant of what page they’re on. If the control needs a piece of data, then it should expose a public property which is of the type of the data that it needs. The page it is on wo uld then set that property to the data that the control needs. This permits the control to be used on another page, or even made part of a UserControl and that UserControl then used on the parent page.

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