Capturing Parameters in htm url

[millenniasp]

A little backround. We are currently re-creating our inhouse Access 2000 application into an ASP.NET intranet application. We are starting with recreating all of our reports into Crystal reports.

 

I have created a user button that will pull up the asp.net application from Access with the following url. My question is how do I get the parameters that I am passing into my global aspx file? I was able to do it when I was calling an aspx page, but when I switch to htm page I cannot see where I can get these parameters.

 

here is the string url

 

http ://localhost/CrystalPrototype/Main.htm?ClientID=W73037&UserID=Millini%20Wills

 

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Robby]

Are you talking about "ClientID" ?

 

If so then ..

 

dim s as string = Request.QueryString("ClientID")

[millenniasp]

I put that in and this is the error I got:

 

Request is not available in this context

 

here is my code in the global aspx file

 

'This call is required by the Component Designer.

InitializeComponent()

 

myClientID = Request.QueryString("ClientID")

myUserID = Request.QueryString("UserID")

[Threads]

You are going to need to use Request from the pages that need it and not from global.aspx. It isn't available from that context

[millenniasp]

In the page_init of the page that is calling for these variables here is the code

 

Try

myClientID = (Request.QueryString("ClientID")) '"W73058"

myUserID = (Request.QueryString("UserID"))

TextBox1.Text = myClientID

 

Catch ex As Exception

Dim errcode As String

errcode = ex.ToString

Label3.Text = errcode

 

End Try

 

 

I recieve no error, but the variables are set to nothing.

[Robby]

Put it in the page_load

[millenniasp]

still doesn't work.

 

Perhaps (um yeah) I should have mentioned that the aspx that the variables need to be set from, are inside the frame on the Main.htm page.

 

Like I said earlier, the passing of the parameters worked until I put this page into a frame.

[millenniasp]

I figured out how to do this, I am going to post it here in case anyone else comes across this situation.

 

First I created a new aspx page and copied the HTML from my "main.htm" page that I was passing the parameters to.

 

I reset my code in Access to reflect this.

 

I then put this code in my global.asax page

 

Sub Session_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

' Fires when the session is started

Session("params") = Request.Params

End Sub

 

 

I then placed this code in the page that needed the parameters

 

Try

myClientID = (Session("params"))("ClientID")

myUserID = Session("params")("UserID")

TextBox1.Text = myClientID

Label4.Text = myUserID

Catch ex As Exception

Dim errcode As String

errcode = ex.ToString

Label3.Text = errcode

End Try

 

 

Best of all it works!!!! YAY!