asp.net building controls:
Put both your projects into a single solution.
From your test app, make a PROJECT REFERENCE to your control's project.
Now add the DLL control to your test app.
Now you should be able to debug straight from your test app and step
directly into the control's source code, and you shouldn't have to jump
through hoops every time you modify your control.
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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net [quoted text, click to view] "Nick Goloborodko" <coolbest@(removethis)paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got the following question: I'm currently in the process of building
> a
> custom control (the one that is compiled into a single dll), and at the
> moment its a tedious task.
>
> My current configuration: 2 projects - one containing code and other files
> related to the control, another one containing my testing webform. They
> both are oppened in separate instances of VS.NET.
>
> At the moment just to try and see what a small change in control does to
> the
> end result i take the following steps:
> 1) Make the change and compile the Custom control project.
> 2) Remove any references to it in the test web form (that includes
> deleting
> all of the instances from the form, removing the reference to the library
> from the reference on the top RHS tree, deleting the control from the
> toolbox)
> 3) Adding the control to the toolbox.
> 4) Setting custom properties for the control(s).
> 5) Launching the Sample web form.
>
> This is the process that i ahve found that works. Other approaches that i
> have tried sometimes didn't propogate the changes in the Custom Control
> into the sample form. But since this is Microsoft - i am sure there must
> be
> an easier way :) So if someone can outline the steps or point me to a page
> on the web that explains the process i would greatly appreciate it. All of
> my searches for this topic to date have failed to produce any results.
>
> Also, how do i debug the control using the VS.NET environment? Once again
> i
> have not found much resources outlining the process. (From my experience
> even the process of development of WebParts for Sharepoint is outlined in
> more places... am i just missing something?)
>
> TIA
> Nick Goloborodko
