reference sever control textbox via stringbuilder 1

[hamking01]

I have about 30 text boxes of 3 different types all named using the same convention. Is there a way to reference these textbox's with a stringbuilder.

for example with the following list of textbox Id's:

txtABCdate
txtBCDdate
txtCDEdate

I need to get the text value of each text box. Looking for something like

Dim Names As String() = {"ABC", "BCD", "CDE"}
For each key in Name
'get the text for textbox (txtABCdate.text)

 

[icrf]

I don't believe .NET has any support for runtime evaluation. You can look at the System.CodeDom.Compiler.ICodeCompiler Interface, or this implementation of it:

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/evaluator.asp

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[hamking01]

What about placing the server controls into an array?

Could something below be possible:

(txtABCdate.text, txtABCname.text, txtABCaddress.text)

For each key in "above array"
'get text and perform some action

This way I could create a number of different arrays (one for each person) and perform some action like inserting into db.

 

[ca8msm]

You could create a TextBox array to hold each textbox. e.g.

Private MyTextBoxes() As TextBox

    Public Sub New()
        ReDim MyTextBoxes(30)
        MyTextBoxes(0) = txtABCdate
        MyTextBoxes(1) = txtBCDdate
        etc ...
    End Sub

Then you can just loop through each item. e.g.

    For Each tmpTextBox As TextBox In MyTextBoxes
    ' Do stuff with tmpTextBox.Text
    Next

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[ca8msm]

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[hamking01]

ca8msm,

Thank you, it does work. Found that i can't use it though. need to have it work as described in the other thread, which by the way you're also replying to. Thank you for help. Really appreaciate it.

 

[JohnYingling]

See Control.FindControl Method
Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id parameter.

Dim myControl1 As Control = FindControl("TextBox2")

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