I am trying to create an ASP.NET control by inheriting from Table. I would like to stop the Rows property from being displayed/persisted at design-time, plus I would like to have new properties I have introduced be persisted as nested tags within my controls tag in the ASP.NET page. To do this I...more >>

Adding Literal Controls in CreateChildControls - Is this bad? Someone told me it was but every example I've seen does not have a problem doing it. They told me I should add the html to the page in the render method and add the control where I want them to go. I just wanted to get other peopl...more >>

Hello, I cannot figure out why this doesnt work. This is almost exactly the same as the samples I've seen but it doesnt work for me. I am making a composite control with a button that has a click event but the event never fires. Here's my code: public class WebCustomControl1 : System.We...more >>

I have a user control, and I would like to create another instance of the user control inside the same user control. I am doing this because the user control has a datagrid, and in the datagrid I instantiate a reference to a new instance of the same ascx file that I am currently on and place i...more >>

Hi, Background: I wrote a custom server control with a public property. Everything works perfekt when I use that server control as following: <DM:Visitenkarte id="Visitenkarte1" runat="server" KontaktID="1"></DM:Visitenkarte> Problem: I would like to use my control within another. So,...more >>

I would like to place an .ASCX file in one project while my main program is in another project. If this is possible, what type of project should I use for the ASCX? How do I call the ASCX from my main program? Do I use the standard @Register directive? Thanks in advance, Jim Christiano ...more >>

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Hi , I want to built a custom server control which has: * a panel * a button which sets the visiblity of the panel true or false and finally a want to add controls in the custom control (label,datagrid,...) in the aspx page just like an asp:panel i have a very small experience in bui...more >>

Hi, I'm loading a user control (.ascx) with LoadControl in a code-behind page. LoadControl returns successfully, and the valid reference it returns is successfully cast to the type of control I need (TimeEntryGrid). All this is done in Page_Init so that the control can catch the Page_Load the...more >>

I've got a custom server control where I need to provide the user the ability to create a list of items items (I know that they will all be strings). In the property browser, I want to use the default type editor for string arrays (basically a textbox where items are seperated by new lines), an...more >>

Hi! I'm so fed up with the built'in control's beeing hard to customize.. I'm trying to modify the radiobuttonlist, so that I can control the appearence of the table when using TableLayout. Right now you can only modify borderwidth,color,style and cellpadding,spacing. I'd like to add the poss...more >>

Hello, I am designing a .net custom control in VS.net 7.1 and my control exposes an array of strings which are supposed to be the items to show. To do this have declared a private string[ ] variable and a public property which returns it. string[] options = new string[1]; public string[] Opt...more >>

Hi, All I design a composite custom control, which has three dropdownlists in it. I find as long as one of the dropdownlist control's id is assigned using uniqueid property of my custom control then a postback event will be fired, but since my dropdownlist has javascript event which does some...more >>