I render some markup dynamically in a Web User Control, can I get that out in design mode, and not only runtime?
public override void RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
if (this.DesignMode)
writer.Write("<p>In design mode</p>");
else
base.RenderControl(writer);
}
... nothing happens when I check the design view of the control. Not if I remove the if (this.DesignMode)-condition either.
i create a composite control as can be seen in code below, and add this control to webform, assign FormView1 to the HeaderControlName property, Run the page, the system will generate parse error message :
Cannot create an object of type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.FormView' from its string representation 'FormView1' for the 'HeaderControlName' property. However, if i don't assign FormView1 in design screen and manually (through coding) assign FormView1 to the custom control on init, it works as expected.
custom control
public class CmdTest : CompositeControl
{
public virtual FormView HeaderControlName
{
get
{
object oObject = ViewState["HeaderControlName"];
return (oObject == null) ? null : (FormView)oObject;
}
set
{
ViewState["HeaderControlName"] = value;
}
}
protected override void CreateChildControls(
{
Controls.Clear();
Button xx = new Button();
Controls.Add(xx);
}
}
webpage.aspx (assign FormView1 in design time, it will generate error)
<Utils:CmdTest ID="CmdTest1" runat="server" HeaderControlName="FormView1" />
webpage.aspx (didn't assign FormView1 in ASPX, but assign it on Init Code, it works)
<Utils:CmdTest ID="CmdTest1" runat="server" oninit="CmdTest1_Init" />
Webpage.aspx.cs
protected void BsCmdTest1_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CmdTest1.HeaderControlName = FormView1;
}
I have the user control and web page. When I place user control in the web page and in design time, it cannot view and error is "System.Web.UI.UserControl does not have a public property named 'ContentTemplate". It seems not related of error message.
View 5 RepliesI'm receiving the following error in DesignMode with the Accordion1 control. Not sure what is causing this. This is my ASP WebApp.Error Rendering Control - Accordion1 An unhandled exception has occurred. Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.Any idea, what causes this error?Code VS 2005 Pro ASP Ajax XP SP3
View 3 RepliesNone of my user controls display on a web form at design time. At runtime they work fine and at design time to design the user controls themselve is fine.
Is there a setting that is telling the controls not to render at design time?
I have a simple HttpHandler that generates a dynamic image based on query string parameters and a custom web control that renders an image tag pointing to the handler as its 'src' attribute. All works fine when run in the web server, but at design timethe control displays as the "missing image" icon (red x in a box). The handler is registered in the web.config with a ".ashx" extension. The RenderContents method in the control looks like this:
output.AddAttribute("src", ResolveUrl(string.Format("~/Sparklines.SparkHandler.ashx?stype=pm&w={0}&h={1}&sv={2}&ev={3}&cv={4}&sc={5}&ec={6}&mc={7}&gs={8}",
Width.IsEmpty ? 100 : Width.Value,
Height.IsEmpty ? 15 : Height.Value,
caleStart, ScaleEnd, CurrentValue,
ColorUtils.ColorString(StartColor, true),
[code]...
I'm developing a set of custom controls, one of them are the "parent", any others must be added inside an ITemplate property of this parent. But in the page, at design time, I can see, by intellisense, the other controls at page level, and I can theorically add them everywhere. I want to emulate the behaviour of the asp:Table and the asp:TableRow, you can't directly add an asp.
View 2 RepliesTwo separate questions, but sufficiently intertwined that I'm going to try the two together....
Firstly - User Controls and Behaviours
I have a User Control which contains a few visual controls. I am attaching some behaviours by using GetScriptDescriptors and am passing some JavaScript to the browser using GetScriptReferences. That is all rock solid and working well. However, when developing, I did discover that I couldn't attach the ehaviours to the User Control itself - not surprising as rendering a User Control does not create a DOM element which represents the actual control. So, I have attached my behaviours to a "random" TextBox within the User Control.
So - first question, is there a better way to do that? For example, should I always be rendering a SPAN as an element to surround the control? Not sure what that would do to the robustness of the rendering. What is the right way to attach a behaviour to a User Control.
Secondly - Accessing those same Behaviours later
Assume I have placed a User Control on the page. That User Control exposes a Property (actually a Javascript Function of course) which does "something" to the control - for the sake of example we'll say that the function is set_Border(colour). I then have a behaviour on the same page (actually an Extender on a different control) which needs to call the function. I have a reference to the User Control in my script, so I have tried TheControlReference.set_Border('red') and find that my control doesn't support the set_Border method.
I guess this is probably because the behaviours are not attached to the User Control itself, but to a GUI element within it. Hence, I suspect that the answer to the second question lies within the answer to the first.
I am designing an ASP.NET v3.5 custom control based on CompositeControl.
However, I do NOT want to create my child controls via code, but rather as
embedded HTML tag elements within the CompositeControl in the ASPX page, such as:
[code]....
At run time, MyControl.Controls contains the two labels as expected.
At design time, MyControl.Controls is empty.
I need this information at design time for various reasons.
What am I doing wrong?
I am creating custom control with tabs and also giving design time support for that control. In design time I cant accessing the child controls and also tabs. I want to change the tabs at the desing time.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to extend a RequiredFieldValidator in an incredibly basic manner.All I want to do is add a property that is a boolean that can be set at design time through the Properties window of Visual Studio 2008.I can get the control to build and render at design time but as soon as I set the Boolean property the control breaks.There is no trouble at run-time with this control, only design time.Below is the code,the placement in VS and the error message:
1) The Code:
[Code]....
3) This is what the design surface shows after that change is made:
In case the image is missing or broken and to help the search engines, this is what it says:
"An unhandled exception has occurred. 'False' could not be set on property 'ShowValidatorSummaryLink'"
I'm sure I'm missing something or there is a serious bug here.I can't imagine that setting a simple property on the design surface would cause so much trouble.
I installed Rad Controls. Using that controls, I designed my application pages. At design time, the design is not visible. It shows the following error:
RadTabStrip1Failed to create designer 'Telerik.Web.UI.RadTabStrip, Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2010.1.415.35, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4'
I have use composite custome control its contain button and textbox and gridveiw
but design time gridview is not display .
Issue:
As my pages are taking time to load first time.
So user has to wait till full page gets loaded and thats irritating . Was this the reason MVC was evolved?
Solution :Should i use partial rendering on all pages including home page, and all forms getting called from home page.
So even if half page is loaded thats less frustrating
For Partial rendering what i plan is : i will put Scriptmanager with Enable partial renderingand update panel for half part of page.
So that user dont have to wait for full page to load.
Is my plan correct? Problem is i cannot regenerate page load issue every time.
I am using two user controls in my page. The controls are loaded dynamically one at a time. I'm just referencing the user controls in the page and loading them dynamically using 'LoadControl()'. Everything is working fine till now and the user can switch the controls one another.
Here the issue I found is eventhough the controls are working as expected and the data is visible, the rendered HTML contains only the first loaded user control's markup.
Even if the current control displayed is 'usercontrol2', the source shows 'usercontrol1' markup. How can I force the page to render 'usercontrol2' markup and remove 'usercontrol1' markup while loading'usercontrol2'?
I have a user control with a datagrid and few other information on title and summary. I would like to render this control to an Excel file !
The problem is , as soon as i try to open the rendered xls file, Excel reports an error, that the file extension is not valid, and that it is not from a trusted resource.
I have created a custom user control and place Ajax editor and override the class of ajax editor to disable few buttons in editor ,
i am getting the following error
unknown server tag on the design time, and iat runtime it is working properly,
I created an Extender which has a custom property that drills down a list XML elements from an xml file, where users can select xml elements during design-time. This works perfectly fine. However, my code only has a hardcoded xml filename (source of the xml elements list) and I need to change this by maxing the xml file user-specified.
What I did is that I created another control (panel) which has a custom property that when clicked (through the ellipsis), it will allow a developer to select the xml file which is supposed to be the source xml file that the Extenders shall use. The filedialog from custom panel's property works perfectly fine.
However, my problem now is that when I drag-drop my Extender, I cannot find a way to get the property value of the custom Panel Control which contains the xml filename. I tried creating a static variable which I thought the custom controls can share but VS2010 is breaking.
The method GetDesignTimeHtml of the ControlDesigner class should return html markup that will be shown on the page in design time. My problem is that control looks different in different versions of the visual studio. What is the rendering engine visual studio use to render control in design mode?
View 2 Repliesi am using the combobox ajax control i in design time i am having an error:
there was an error rendering the control. Request is not available in the context.
I was referred here by MSDN forums hope this is the right place - I have a custom control (:WebControl) that renders web.sitemap in a specific way. While it runs error free and produces the expected result, at Design-Time it complains
[Code]....
and have tried the SiteMapDataProvider Tag with and without the SiteMapProvider
attribute.Does anybody have (a) any experience with this, or (b) any suggestions as to how to track down the problem?
suppose i've created my own user control, and it has a textbox and a property for the textbox so that if i use the user control from within the aspx file, i can give the property a value. for example:
[Code]....
is it possible to also set the property to be seen via the desing mode , just as it works for other (built in) controls? maybe a different method to implement the same scenario?
if you still didn't understand what i mean : after setting the value of DefaultNum1 via the code i've written here, i expect the textbox associated with this property to be updated as well to '1' via the design mode (and split mode). of course it won't work using the current method, since VS cannot guess what is going on with the property and understand that all of its purpose is to assign an initialization value for the textbox.
I have a aspx page which contains 6 user controls which will be displayed when the user clicks on any button using show model pop up extender. My page rendering takes more time. it taked 3 minuits to load the page. If i debug the page its traveling to page load of all the user controls. Its not taking more time to fetch the data from database but its taking time to load the page. Is there any way to improve the perfomace .Is there any place where i have to look into.I am using VS 2010 and c# .
View 2 RepliesI'm adding a User Control to my aspx page at Run-Time like bellow:
UserControl uc = new UserControl();
uc = LoadControl("UC1.ascx") as UserControl;
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Clear();
PlaceHolder1.Controls.Add(uc);
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There is a Button in the User Control its Click event not working. What's the problem?
I have a page that has a bunch of user controls. I would like to be able to see which user controls are performing badly. I would like to be able to see this in the trace. any way to do this.
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