passing values via URL

[kto]

Hey,

Just a wee Q...I am trying to pass the value from my textbox via a URL and am unsure how to get this value.
My link reads:

<a href="AddSequence.aspx?RepNo=<%#txtRepNo.Text%>" style="COLOR: #0000ff">Add Sequence to this Rep</a>

but no luck! How can I pass this value?

[hellswraith]

Originally posted by kto
Hey,

Just a wee Q...I am trying to pass the value from my textbox via a URL and am unsure how to get this value.
My link reads:

<a href="AddSequence.aspx?RepNo=<%#txtRepNo.Text%>" style="COLOR: #0000ff">Add Sequence to this Rep</a>

but no luck! How can I pass this value?

Now, I am assuming you are using asp.net. So you just use a namevaluecollection object. The namevaluecollection is in the System.Collections.Specialized namespace:

Dim col As NameValueCollection = Request.QueryString

Dim RepNo As String = col.Get("RepNo").ToString()

[kto]

Fraid I'm using VB.NET so I can't utilise the NameValueCollection.
Ordinarily the user clicks on the record from within a datagrid so it is easy to pass the RepNo value to the receiving page (AddSequence), however, the page I am trying to get the textbox value from is on a simple form (just used to display the actual record) and I don't really want to change how the page retrieves the RepNo value (i.e. Request.QueryString()).
There must be a way to get that value when the user clicks on the link and send it along with my URL, no?!

[kto]

for any of you crazy cats who are looking to pass values via URL I found the simple solution by declaring a session variable in my VB e.g.

Session("repno") = RepNo

and then accessing that session variable from my HTML like so...

<a href="AddSequence.aspx?RepNo=<%=session("repno")%>" style="COLOR: #0000ff">Add Sequence to this Rep</a>

ahoy!

[hellswraith]

Originally posted by kto
for any of you crazy cats who are looking to pass values via URL I found the simple solution by declaring a session variable in my VB e.g.

Session("repno") = RepNo

and then accessing that session variable from my HTML like so...

<a href="AddSequence.aspx?RepNo=<%=session("repno")%>" style="COLOR: #0000ff">Add Sequence to this Rep</a>

ahoy!

Be careful though. I think if the session variable doesn't exist yet, and you try to use it, it will through an error. The book I have says to check for a null value first. It is in C# though, don't know how VB.Net handles it.