Dmitry,

Bonnie has given you one way to do this, but I would argue that's not a good idea because you are breaking encapsulation. You shouldn't expose child controls in a user control in this fashion to the parent.

Either the child control should manage all interaction with the values itself, or the child control should republish the appropriate values as properties that can be accessed from the parent control.

In your situation I would probably create a property called dbVersion and
then expose from it the VALUE (not the control) of the control it's bound to:

In hte user controL

public string dbVersion
{
   get {  return this.txtdbVersion.Text; } 
}

If you find that your control needs to publish a lot of values in this fashion you should re-examine your interface and think about refactoring logic most likely into the usercontrol itself.


+++ Rick ---

>I need to reference an ASP label which is in the User Control, from the code in the page.
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>The page has declaration of the user control, at the top of the pages, as:
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>< %@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="Header" Src="Header.ascx" % >
>

>
>In the HTML of the page the user control declaration code is:
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><uc1:Header id="Header1" runat="server"></uc1:Header>
>

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>The user control has ASP label as:
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><asp:Label ID="DbVersion" Runat=server></asp:Label>
>

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>And I want from the OnLoad method of the page to set value of this label. Pseudo code:
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>uc1.Header1.dbVersion.text = "My Version"
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>How do I do it?
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>Thank you in advance.