Call Method in Master Page

c# .net asp.net master-pages
suggy1982 picture suggy1982 · Jun 13, 2011 · Viewed 37.3k times · Source

I have a public method in my asp.net Master Page. Is it possible to call this from a content page and if so what are the steps/syntax?

Answer

Grant Thomas picture Grant Thomas · Jun 13, 2011

From within the Page you can cast the Master page to a specific type (the type of your own Master that exposes the desired functionality), using as to side step any exceptions on type mismatches:

var master = Master as MyMasterPage;
if (master != null)
{
    master.Method();
}

In the above code, if Master is not of type MyMasterPage then master will be null and no method call will be attempted; otherwise it will be called as expected.

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