Question

I have a user control that displays a list of categories. In that user control I have a Label control that I would like to write to from the code behind file. This is my Label

I have tried this code:

Label lblCount = (Label)this.Page.FindControl('Label1'); lblCount.text = 'some text'; 

How can I get access to write to the label from the user control code behind page? What code would I need. I keep getting this error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

i usually do it like this

<asp:Label ID='Label1' runat='server' Text='<%# GetAmount() %>'></asp:Label> 

then have a method like this in the code behind.

protected string GetAmount() {     return 'some text'; } 

The GetAmount() method will be called for every row in the page. You can pass parameters from the datasoure using Eval(‘ColumnName’) if you need them.