Retrieve value from previous page

[staeri]

I have a page containing a dropdownlist. After clicking a hyperlink
another page is opened.

How can I retrieve the selected text in the dropdownlist from the new
page without using a session or querystring?

Regards,

// SE

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

If you are in ASP.NET 2.0 and are using a control capable of posting back to
another page (Button, ImageButton, LinkButton), you can postback to another
page and access the previous page via the PreviousPage property. Read the
Cross-Page Posting section in MSDN for more info.

 

[Guest]

I have a page containing a dropdownlist. After clicking a hyperlink
another page is opened.

How can I retrieve the selected text in the dropdownlist from the new
page without using a session or querystring?

You might be able to do using javascript, and pass the value back to the
code behind somehow.

Javascript would be something like:
parent.formname.controlname.value

 

[Mark Rae]

I have a page containing a dropdownlist. After clicking a hyperlink
another page is opened.

How can I retrieve the selected text in the dropdownlist from the new
page without using a session or querystring?

Other than following Eliyahu's advice, you can't really... Once a page is
gone, it's gone - that's precisely why Session exists. What's the problem to
use Session, AAMOI...?