Reference custom list form fields from code behind and automatically fill them with values.

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Published on 2009-07-13T11:37:25Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 5:52 UTC
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Hello.

I`v made my custom NewForm.aspx for my list and I want to add some custom code to it. So I inherit that form from my own class:

public class MyCustomNewForm : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPartPage

Now I want to reference some of available fields to automatically fill them for user. (Javascript won't help here as I have to get some data from other lists).

But I have no idea how do I reference these fields from codebehind files.

The code for control field is written (well, it was generated by Sharepoint Designer when using command Insert > SharePoint Controls > Custom List Form...) in .aspx page like this:

<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="ff1{$Pos}" ControlMode="New" FieldName="Title" __designer:bind="{ddwrt:DataBind('i',concat('ff1',$Pos),'Value','ValueChanged','ID',ddwrt:EscapeDelims(string(@ID)),'@Title')}"/>

When looking at id at runtime, it is insanely long

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So how do i reference fields, so I could set Text property on them in my codebehind file?

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