I need to make some setting for a user control in "DeclarativeCatalogPart" in Page_Load, but the ID myUserControl1 can not be accessed, neither is DeclarativeCatalogPart1.FindControl("myUserControl1"), how can I do with this? The following is my CatalogZone part, please help me, thanks a lot !

<asp:CatalogZone
                ID="CatalogZone1" 
                Runat="server" >
            <ZoneTemplate>
                     <asp:DeclarativeCatalogPart  ID="DeclarativeCatalogPart1"  Runat="server" >
                  <WebPartsTemplate>
                     <uc1:myUserControl ID="myUserControl1" Runat="server"  />
                  </WebPartsTemplate>
                </asp:DeclarativeCatalogPart>
            </ZoneTemplate>
</asp:CatalogZone>

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here, but if you need to be able to do something in the page_load, you can of course add some custom code to user controls load event. That would be the most easiest way.

Actually, you can programmatically access the catalog. What you'll need is a method that will iterate through the controls on the page looking for a particular type, not id; you are only going to have one DeclarativeCatalogPart on the page anyway.

Once you have that you can find the control and access the declared parts:

hey am too stuck at the same place . would be gr8 if u could post the solution.

thanks .

If you register your control on the page and give the control a class name you can reference it in the code behind of your webpart page. You can then make an instance of it and set its property's or do whatever you want with it and then add it to a webpartzone through addwebpart() method of the webpartmanager. For example in an imagebutton click event. If you want to use the declarativecatalogpart for adding your user control, you can use the events of the user control for configure-ing it.

I'm no expert, but if you write here what it is you are really trying to accomplish i'm sure someone will show you an easy way to do it.

Nuwanda