I've been having trouble ALL day with this issue and am finding little help online at MSDN.  I'm fairly new to .NET and OO so it could just be an OO problem. 

 I'm trying to use the System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.EditorZone.WebPartToEdit property.  It should be type WebPart, but I'm getting a null value returned.  I've created a custom class (see below) and call it from my code behind of my main page.  When I hardcode the ID of the control I'm referring to (in my calling page) it works just fine.  However if I call this class to dynamically grab the control currently in edit mode I get an error because the control is returned as null.

My WebPartBeingEdited Class:

1    Imports System
2    Imports System.Web
3    Imports System.Web.UI
4    Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
5    Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts
6    
7    
8    Public Class WebPartBeingEdited
9        Inherits System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.EditorZone
10   
11       Dim _x As WebPart = Me.WebPartToEdit     'Find out which webpart is being edited.
12   
13       Public ReadOnly Property x()
14           Get
15               Return _x
16           End Get
17       End Property
18   
19   End Class

 

 My instantiation of my class from the code-behind of my main page:  

1    Dim part As GenericWebPart
2    Dim WebPartBeingEdited1 As New WebPartBeingEdited()
3    
4    part = WebPartManager1.GetGenericWebPart(BulletedList1)      'This line works, but is hard-coded =(
5    
6    'The following line is what I want but does not work.  WebPartBeingEdited1.x returns NULL
7    'part = WebPartManager1.GetGenericWebPart(WebPartBeingEdited1.x) 

   I appreciate any insight you can offer. 

Thanks!

Lauren

Ok.  So I fixed it.  I didn't need a custom class at all.  In fact, the fix was much simpler than I was making it.  These two little lines of code in my code-behind grabbed the webpart I needed to work with no problem:

1    Dim part As WebPart
2    part = WebPartManager1.SelectedWebPart

So.. In case anyone is trying to figure out which webpart is in Edit mode, this is the way.  This was one of those "duh" moments.  But if it helps anyone else out then I guess its not all in vain.