"Perecli Manole" wrote:

> I created a tabstrip custom control that is declared like this:
>
> <acc:TabStrip ID="Tabs" runat="server" SelectedTabID="aa"
> AutoPostBack="true">
> <Tab ID="aa" Text="aa">
> <Template/>
> </Tab>
> <Tab ID="bb" Text="bb"/>
> <Template>
> <asp:Panel ID="test" ..... or any other control />
> </Template>
> </Tab>
> </acc:TabStrip>
>
> I am using <ControlBuilder(GetType(TabStrip.ControlBuilder)),
> ParseChildren(False)> attributes on the TabStrip Class and overrided
> AddParsedSubObject() to add the Tabs to a collection of type
> StateManagedCollection. Then somewhere in PreRender as I am iterating
> through the collection I am doing this
> "objTab.Template.InstantiateIn(objTableCell)" to place the contents of the
> template in a TableCell that is being rendered by the TabStrip control.
> Everything renderes and operates properly, however, as a control consumer, I
> have not found a way to access any of the controls contained in the
> template. In the example above I can not access the control with ID="test"
> in the code behind so if I wanted to change any properties of these
> controls, on post back, I could not. How should I change my implementation
> to allow my consumers to access the controls contained in the <Template>
> tags.
>
> Perry
>
>