Magne Ryholt wrote:
> I have made a control based on System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
> which override the Render method to emit a script
> (by using the Page.RegisterStartupScript() method)
> This works fine.
>
> This control does not render any HTML code except the mentioned
> script, therefore I would like to put the component (using VS.net
> 2003) on the component tray instead of the form.
> (otherwise it takes up space on thye form)
>
> Anyone knows if this is possible ?

"Jos" <jnospambranders@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Magne Ryholt wrote:
>> I have made a control based on System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
>> which override the Render method to emit a script
>> (by using the Page.RegisterStartupScript() method)
>> This works fine.
>>
>> This control does not render any HTML code except the mentioned
>> script, therefore I would like to put the component (using VS.net
>> 2003) on the component tray instead of the form.
>> (otherwise it takes up space on thye form)
>>
>> Anyone knows if this is possible ?
>
> I don't think so.
> To get your control in the component tray, you need to
> derive from Component instead of WebControl.
>
> But Component doesn't have a Render method.
>
> However, you could associate your control with a class
> derived from ControlDesigner, which would just emit some
> small code to show in the designer. This would solve
> your problem.
>
> Look here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-adddesigntimesupport.asp
>
> --
>
> Jos
>
>
>

Magne Ryholt wrote:
> Thanks for your answer
> I beleive your answer indicates to emit some HTML for showing the
> control in
> design time, but still it will occupy space in the form designer ?

"Jos" <jnospambranders@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Magne Ryholt wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer
>> I beleive your answer indicates to emit some HTML for showing the
>> control in
>> design time, but still it will occupy space in the form designer ?
>
> Not if you make it emit an empty string.
>
> --
>
> Jos
>
>
>