Event Handler is Always null
It could be that Page_Load
is too late in the page lifecycle to be using LoadControl and subscribing to the event. What happens if you move that code to the Page_Init
method?
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Updated on August 11, 2022Comments
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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.