Problem populating the controls in a Master page

Hello,

I am working on a site which has to have a search form on every page. So I decided to put it in a Master page. Then on the submit button I place the following property:

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PostBackUrl="~/Search.aspx"

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From a page (say the Default.aspx one) I access the search form controls with the following code:

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TextBox tbPriceFrom = (TextBox)Master.FindControl("tbPriceFrom");
TextBox tbPriceTo = (TextBox)Master.FindControl("tbPriceTo");

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My problem is that the controls are not populated with the entered from the user data.

Please, help.

Thanks.

I found the solution. There is a PreviousPage property (only available when a cross-page posting occurs). This property contains the view state of the previous page. So instead of calling

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TextBox tbPriceFrom = (TextBox)Master.FindControl("tbPriceFrom");
TextBox tbPriceTo = (TextBox)Master.FindControl("tbPriceTo");

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we need to call

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TextBox tbPriceFrom = (TextBox)PreviousPage.Master.FindControl("tbPriceFrom");
TextBox tbPriceTo = (TextBox)PreviousPage.Master.FindControl("tbPriceTo");

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hay,
please read this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xxwa0ff0.aspx