Posted on: 4/2/2014 3:37:12 PM | Views : 669

I have a web form with a hiddenField control called formID. My goal is when the user hits the submit button, I need the value of ID from the database to be available on the next page so I can pull the users data into the form using a ListView control. The issue is that the value is null on Page 2. Is there a better way to achieve this? Thanks
Here is my hiddenfield on page1:
<asp:HiddenField runat="server" Value="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ECString %>" ID="formID" /> On page 2 cs file in Page_Load
HiddenField hf = (HiddenField)Page.PreviousPage.FindControl("formID"); string ID = hf.Value; On my ListView control pn page 2
</asp:ListView> <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ECStr ...

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