Question

I have a control used by multiple web pages. In this control I’m running a stored proc to get a user’s permission level. I then store this in an invisible label.
In the pages that this menu control is loaded in different things happen based on the permission level, mostly buttons being enabled/disabled.
My question is can I access the label I’ve put in the menu control (.ascx) from the VB of the pages it’s in? and if yes, how?

Answer 1

There are couple ways.
Say your label is this:

<asp:Label ID="lblPermission" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

1: You can get the VALUE of the label like.

Public ReadOnly Property Permission As String
     Get
         Return lblPermission.Text
     End Get
 End Property

2: Get the LABEL itself like:

 Public ReadOnly Property LblPermission As Label
     Get
         Return lblPermission
     End Get
 End Property

3: Find the lable inside the UC (MyMenuUC1 below) is the id of the menu usercontrol:

Dim lblPermission As Label = CType(MyMenuUC1.FindControl("lblPermission"),Label)

4: Grab string like this:

Dim permission As String = CType(MyMenuUC1.FindControl("lblPermission"),Label).Text