Question

I have been trying to find a good answer to this question, but can’t seem to find one. I have an ASP.NET page that derives from a base page, like this:

public partial class MainPage : MyBasePage
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var loginTime = GetLoginTime(); // This works fine
    }
}

And the base page:

public partial class MyBasePage: Page
{
}

protected DateTime GetLoginTime()
{
    // Do stuff
    return loginTime;
}

Now I have a user control on that page that needs to call my method…Like this:

public partial class TimeClock : UserControl
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var loginTime = GetLoginTime(); // This does not work!
    }
}

As you can see, I cannot call my base method, for obvious reasons. My question is, how can I call this method from my user control? One work around I’ve found is like this:

var page = Parent as MyBasePage;
page.GetLoginTime(); // This works IF I make GetLoginTime() a public method

This works, if I make my function public instead of protected. Doing this doesn’t seem like a very OOP way to tackle this solution, so if someone can offer me a better solution, I’d appreciate it!

Answer 1

TimeClock inherits from UserControl, not from MyBasePage so why should TimeClock see the Method GetLoginTime()?