microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.buildingcontrols

bruce barker

5/20/2008 10:49:00 PM

the validator design logic requires the validator and the control to be
validated are in the same naming container. There is no hidden logic, the
base validator code just does a this.NamingContainer.FindControl().

if you know the fully qualified path you can specify it as:
parent1$parent2$child

you could make your own naming container that the validators were placed in
that had its own FindControl logic.


-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Nathan Sokalski" wrote:

> I am writing a Validator by inheriting from the BaseValidator class. I need
> to access the control referred to by the ControlToValidate property. Because
> ControlToValidate is a String, I will need to use the FindControl() method
> using ControlToValidate as the argument. In most cases, this would work
> perfectly fine, but as most of us know, there are some scenarios (such as
> those involving Master pages) in which the NamingContainers can make this
> harder than we would like. The GetControlValidationValue() method obviously
> needs to reference the ControlToValidate control when it gets the validation
> value, so I am wondering if there is some hidden way to make it easier to
> get the ControlToValidate control in a Validator, since they are often used
> together. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
> njsokalski@hotmail.com
> http://www.nathansok...
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