Access a control from another class

11-03-2009 9:21 AM |

This might be a newbie question - apologize if it is.

I have a page (MainPage) that's inside my namespace (TestNS).

I have a control on that page - a textbox (TestText).

Within the MainPage.cs I can access TestText with no issues.

However, if I have another class within the same namespace, I cannot access TestText.  For that matter, I cannot access any public properties that I create in MainPage.  Intellisense ignores them.  I've tried MainPage.TestText, I've even tried TestNS.MainPage.TestText and it simply cannot find it.

What am I missing?

Re: Access a control from another class

11-03-2009 10:30 AM |

for example the project will start at the main class and you do have a textbox on the main class

on class2 create a function accepting a textbox control

class2 myclass2 = new class2()

mainclasstextbox = myclass2.sendcontrol(mainclasstextbox)

you pass mainclass textbox control to other class

//Class2 function

public textbox sendcontrol(textbox mainclasstextbox)

{

//you do somthing with the mainclasstextbox

 return mainclasstextbox;

}

something like that.

Thanks 

Re: Access a control from another class

11-03-2009 10:43 AM |

I really don't want to go this route, since it forces MainPage to be aware of Class2.  I want Class2 to be able to alter the public properties of MainPage without MainPage having to do anything special for Class2.

Is there something in Silverlight's UserControl that prevents this from working?  MainPage is, in fact, a UserControl.