How do I manipulate the text in my Site.Master file in codebehind

Question

I would like to carry out some string operations on the username in my Site.Master page before rendering it on the page.

Here's what the current code looks like:

<div class="login">
    <asp:LoginView ID="HeadLoginView" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
         <LoggedInTemplate>
             Welcome <span class="bold"><asp:LoginName ID="HeadLoginName" runat="server" /></span>
         </LoggedInTemplate>
    </asp:LoginView>
</div>

For some reason, I cannot reference HeadLoginName.Text or something similar. What am I missing here?

Thanks for looking.

Answer 1

Possible Duplicate:

Find control in loginview

It is necessary to find the "HeadLoginName" control inside the "HeadLoginView" container first and then specify its Text property (see the Find Control with in LoginView control blog post for more information):

LoginName ln = (LoginName)HeadLoginView.FindControl("HeadLoginName");
ln.Text = ...;