capture the value from a text box in a formview

[ola123]

Morning guys,

I have a formview and i would like to capture content of a textbox within the formview and display its content in another textbox or label whenever a button is pressed.

i have tried the following:

Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

        txttest.Text = FormView1.FindControl("txtappno")

End Sub

the error i'm getting is that the "value of type system.web.UI.control cannot be converted to string"

oh i'm a newbie so any link to any material that would assist would be greatly appreciated.

thanks for the assistance in advance

 

[RiverGuy]

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[jebenson]

This code:

FormView1.FindControl("txtappno")

returns a reference to the textbox, so you are trying to assign a textbox to a string, which produces the error you are getting. Try this:

Dim t As TextBox

t = FormView1.FindControl("txtappno")

txttest.Text = t.Text



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[ola123]

Guys thanks a million
it worked.

RiverGuy - thanks i'll do that