Why usercontrol won't allow Request.Cookies

2 Dec 2005 2:55 PM

Andy Sutorius via DotNetMonster.com

I'm getting an error, Request is not available in this context, when I run a
usercontrol and instantiate a class and call a property in that class which
calls Request.Cookies. The instantiated class inherits the Page class. Why
won't this work?

namespace ui
{
    public partial class topNav : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        BaseUpdatePage SharedBaseMethods = new BaseUpdatePage();

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            lblUserAndDatabase.Text = "User: " + SharedBaseMethods.UserID + "

:: " + DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString() + " :: Database: " + SharedBaseMethods.
Database;

}
}
}

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2 Dec 2005 4:36 PM

Stephen Woolhead

Just because you instantiate a page class does not mean it has a
HttpContext. There is no point instantiating a Page class like that, put
your shared methods in a normal class and use HttpContext.Current.Request to
get the threads active context.

Stephen

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> I'm getting an error, Request is not available in this context, when I run
> a
> usercontrol and instantiate a class and call a property in that class
> which
> calls Request.Cookies. The instantiated class inherits the Page class. Why
> won't this work?
>
> namespace ui
> {
>    public partial class topNav : System.Web.UI.UserControl
>    {
>        BaseUpdatePage SharedBaseMethods = new BaseUpdatePage();
>
>        protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
>        {
>            lblUserAndDatabase.Text = "User: " + SharedBaseMethods.UserID +
> "
> :: " + DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString() + " :: Database: " +
> SharedBaseMethods.
> Database;
>        }
> }
> }
>
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