Question

I have searched extensively on this, but cannot find the solution to my problem. I am trying to call a function in the code behind of a page from a user control on that page.

I have a web application that uses a master page. I am adding a user control that I wrote to one of the content pages. I added the user control to the aspx page by dragging and dropping it from the toolbox. I am able to see the user control from the code behind, but I cannot access the public functions. To fix that problem, I created an object of the user control in the code behind and used the LoadControl function. All of that seems to work fine.

The problem I am having is when I am trying to hook the into the EventHandler from the aspx page to the user control. Everything compiles and runs just fine, but I am not seeing anything happen on the page. I think the issue is that the EventHandler is always null.

User Control Code

public partial class ucBuyerList : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    public delegate void BuyerSelectedEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e);
    public event BuyerSelectedEventHandler BuyerSelected;

    private string name = "";
    public string Name
    {
        get { return name; }
        set { name = value; }
    }

    private string auid = "";
    public string AUID
    {
        get { return auid; }
        set { auid = value; }
    }

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    private void OnBuyerSelected(EventArgs e)
    {
        if (BuyerSelected != null)
        {
            BuyerSelected(this, new EventArgs());
        }
    }

    protected void lbBuyerList_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SetNameAndAUID();
        OnBuyerSelected(e);
    }

    private void SetNameAndAUID()
    {
        name = lbBuyerList.SelectedItem.Text;
        auid = lbBuyerList.SelectedItem.Value;
    }
}

Parent Page Code

    public partial class frmBuyerInformation : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Master.changePageTitle("Buyer Information");
        buyerList.BuyerSelected += new ucBuyerList.BuyerSelectedEventHandler(buyerListControl_BuyerSelected);
    }

    void buyerListControl_BuyerSelected(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DisplayBuyerInformation();
    }

    public void DisplayBuyerInformation()
    {
        tbName.Text = buyerList.Name;
        tbAUID.Text = buyerList.AUID;
    }
}

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

EDIT: This issue has been resolved. The code snippits above are now functional. If anyone runs into the issue I had, you can model the code above. Make sure that AutoEventWireup="true" in both the aspx and ascx pages. Thank you June Paik for your solution. Thank you Diego De Vita for your input as well.

Answer 1

I’ve been struggling with events for quite a while as well. Nowadays I always create them this way ’cause it’s the only way I know it works. Haven’t tested it with your code but here it goes anyway:

public partial class ucBuyerList : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    public delegate void BuyerSelectedEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e);

    public event BuyerSelectedEventHandler BuyerSelected;

    public string Name;
    public string AUID;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //Select the first buyer in the list when the user control loads

        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            lbBuyerList.SelectedIndex = 0;
        }
    }

    private void OnBuyerSelected(EventArgs e)
    {
        BuyerSelectedEventHandler handler = BuyerSelected;
        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(this, new EventArgs());
        }
    }

    protected void lbBuyerList_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Name = lbBuyerList.SelectedItem.Text;
        AUID = lbBuyerList.SelectedItem.Value;
        OnBuyerSelected(e);
    }
}

In the parent page you can just call your function the same way you’re doing it already.