I have a simple ASP.NET user control. It looks like this:
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeBehind="NewsArticle.ascx.cs"
Inherits="Website.Controls.NewsArticle" %>
<div>
<asp:Literal ID="ltlBody" runat="server" />
</div>
My code is as follows:
namespace Website.Controls
{
public partial class NewsArticle : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
public String bodyText
{
set { ltlBody.Text = value; }
}
}
}
On the .aspx page I have <asp:Panel ID="pNews" runat="server" />
In the code I have:
foreach (vwNews news in newsQuery)
{
NewsArticle article = new NewsArticle();
article.bodyText = news.Body;
pNews.Controls.Add(article);
}
Every time I run this code, newsQuery fills up correctly and I get to the line
aticle.bodyText = news.Body;and then I got an errorarticle.bodyText threw an exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'
I am not sure what causes this error message or how to fix it. I would think that there should be no problem. I tried to create a constructor for my web user so that it gives default values for my properties, but this did not work. Any idea how to make this work? It doesn't seem to be that