Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have the following line of code in some master page code behind, but it fails without the this. Why is that?
Repeater rep = this.FindControlsByIdRegEx("maintTableRepeater")[0] as Repeater;
This is in the master page Load event, and the extension method is defined as;
public static List<Control> FindControlsByIdRegEx(this Control control, string idPattern)
Extension methods must have an instance to “hang off of”.
A method call without an object always refers to the method with that signature – in the same instance. Extension methods are not part of the instance. They are static methods that live elsewhere in the system, and use a little bit of compiler sugar – a trick, really – to look like they hang off of an object for ease of coding.