so I have this custom user control, just some data inside divs with a fancy css.
So inside my page I need to add it multiple times, and I do so in code behind within loop.
Now, this code doesn't work
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and of course it works fine now. My questions would be - why? can I do it without pecifying file name and just creating control the normal way like in first example?:S
Wasn't quite sure where to post this, seems like the issues could be any number of things, so I'm trying to keep it general... mods, feel free to relocate appropriately.
I am trying to build a page which will load various web user controls dynamically in response to menu selections made by the user, and then allow other interactions inside those controls (such as gridview manipulation and updates). The content page simply has a loginview, an ASP:Menu control, and an ASP:Placeholder. The placeholder is filled by the appropriate user control in response to the menu selection. Selecting a menu item causes a postback and the correct control is loaded as expected.
I realized that using dynamic loading with interactive controls would be a problem with respect to postbacks, so I added a ScriptManager to the content page and enclosed the gridview controls in the web user controls within UpdatePanels, thinking that all postbacks required by the GridView would be handled inside the UpdatePanel and not cause the parent page to refresh (which would then wipe out the dynamically loaded control). However, it does not seem to work this way. Instead, although the control containing the GridView loads correctly and displays data, when I attempt to page, edit, or select any item on the GridView, nothing happens on the first click. If I click on any item inside the control a second time, the entire page refreshes and the control and its contents disappear.
I have removed all the code inside the web user control and placed it directly into the content page to test, and everything functions correctly in that case. I think therefore that I must be missing something with how the user control is working, particularly with respect to the UpdatePanel. Is it just not possible to use an UpdatePanel to confine actions inside a user control that would otherwise cause the entire page to postback, or am I missing something somewhere?
Psuedo-code for the issue below
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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 been playing around with loading user controls in a CMS style where I can change the position and order. I have come up with this...
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It all works fairly well - but I have alot of propertys in my user control code behinds where I could inject values into the usercontrol from my base class.
I like the way I can position usercontrols from the DB, I even added a time and date section where they could be switched on and off per day or time.
If I make every user control access the DAL for the data, it means i will have one select per user control, which means including my bassclass I could have upto 15 selects (visits tot he DB) to make the front page. Though this does not seem to make a performance problem, I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this.
Can a custom user control embed another custom user control?is this "bad practice"?eg if i have a custom user control named "Forums" then 2 more custom controls that are "Read_Forums" and "Write_Forums"and all i need to call is "forums" in the page asking - and then it will put in both functionalities..
View 2 RepliesI have a custom control which inherit from the Table class and in the constructor, it takes a an integer as an argument. There is no empty constructor.
Is there a way for the user to set that variable in the properties window after they drag the control onto a form.
I know some .NET controls, you can set the source for the parameter to different things like another control's property, QueryString using just the properties window.
Right now, I have to create the control dynamically. I read the query string and then created the object.
System.Reflection.Assembly assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(@"CustomControls.Nav.dll");
//Namespace and assembly name are CustomControls.Nav , the class name for the control is WebBar
Type type = assembly.GetType("CustomControls.Nav.WebBar");
I am getting type as null.What am I doing wrong here?
i have a BaseMasterUserControl.ascx and i have create a another ChildUserControl1.ascx
and ChildUserControl2.ascx, both are inherit from a BaseMasterUserControl.ascx.
i have hosted the BaseMasterUserControl.ascx in an aspx page. At runtime i am deciding
which usercontrol should be load. so i am loading a specific usercontrol dynamically and
assigning it to baseusecontrol but content are not visual, is this possible?
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I have created a user control and am ready to convert it into a custom control. I am trying to follow:
[URL] the steps mentioned in the link.
I am not seeing Build / Publish Web Site option.
I am using VS 2008. I only see Publish User Control but it doesn't give all the settings mentioned below. When I do publish user control, it just copies the ascx file to the desired location. how can I convert the user control to custom control.
i have a page it contains a User Control. in it we have a Button "View Tree" it will open a pop up window (contins a tree view).when we select any node in the tree the Corresponding item will be Loaded in the User Control and Close the Popup.i want to achive this With out re loading the total page. i am using VS 2008.
View 1 Replies I have usercontrols which are loading at runtime in my aspx... (This part is working fine).
Now i need to invoke the methods of the user control which has been loaded..
How to invoke those methods??
like if i have 3 methods in usercontrol which is loaded at runtime:
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Now how to invoke these methods at runtime?
I'm attempting to create a simple menu user control just as outlined here.
The attached code results in an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error, but I can't figure out why.
<%@ Master Language="VB" CodeFile="MySite.master.vb" Inherits="MySite" %>
<%@ Register src="Controls/Menu.ascx" tagname="Menu" tagprefix="my" %>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">......
i developed a custom control (inherited from System.Web.UI.UserControl) which is used within a Gridview's TemplateField:
<sc:MyControl
runat="server"
id="my_ctrl"
AllowEditing="true"
NumberOfControls='<%# Eval("Count")%>' />
"Count" is an integer value from the GridView Datasource.
Based on this value i have to create some LinkButtons dynamically in my custom control (in Page_Init), which works very well when the value for NumberOfControls is hard-coded.
My problem is that the value of "Count" is not available (NumberOfControls = null) during Page_Init and therefore i can't decide how many controls there should be generated.
Is there any way to pass databinded values to custom controls so that they can be used earlier (as if the values were hard-coded)?
I have a web user control that represents a simple message box. It is used to display simple messages like "Item has been deleted", or "The item was saved successfully".
On the other hand, I have another web user control that represents the item in the form of an editable form (I made this a user control because this is used in two different pages). I want to embed an instance of the message box user control inside the editable form. I am writing this right after the @Control directive:
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Instead of using @Register directives, I register the user controls in web.config and so far this has worked just fine.
With the above markup, the project compiles, but whenever I try to navigate to a page that contains this construct, I get an HttpParseException exception. Furthermore, Visual Studio states that the tack w7rc9:MessageBox doesn't represent a known control.
What am I doing wrong?
I have 3 pages in each page there is a portion of page where it is common in all these three pages.Thought of making the common stuff as a separate control either User control/Custom control.Any suggestions on which one should i use custom/user control
View 2 RepliesI have a parent control that has an instance of a HiddenField child control. I am using CreateChildControls() to add it. Everything works client side including the values being added to the field. However, on postback, the reference to the field is null
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I have tried simply relying on the ViewState ... then also attempted using FindControl(). Neither works, it comes up as a null reference ... any input on what is going here?
I want to dynamically add a web user control to a web form. Everything I've read so implies that I should be able to use the PlaceHolder web server control for this, yet I cannot this to work. I've created a simple test to just try to master this concept, yet I can only get non-web user controls added. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Below is the entirety of my code.
.aspx Page:
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.aspx.cs Page
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.ascx for TestControl
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.ascx.cs for TestControl
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I'm new to all of this, so go easy on me. This should be an easy one. I have created a custom SmartContentBlock user control for a CMS.The control works, but only if I invoke the Fill() function in the Page_init event in the codebehind of the ASPX page. My goal is to modify the class file so that the Fill() in the codebehind is no longer neccesary. So, for reference, here's the gist of the current situtation.Controls.cs
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ASPX Page
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i created a user control called userCon.asxc. may i know how do i do when i click on button1, then the userCon.asxc will load into panel1?
I checked on internet, but found only those loading the user control to page when execute. What i want is to load user control into panel1 when button1 is click. .
I have a Repeater control that loads instances of a custom control I have built. This repeater looks like this:
<asp:Repeater ID="myRepeater" runat="server" OnLoad="myRepeater_Load">
<HeaderTemplate>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<tr><td><my:CustomControl ID="myControl" runat="server"
OnLoad="myControl_Load" />
</td></tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<FooterTemplate>
</table>
</FooterTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
I bind to the Repeater through the myRepeater_Load event handler. My custom control is used to render an item within the Repeater. Because of this, I am trying to set properties on the custom control during the myControl_Load event handler. However, I do not know how to access the current item during the myControl_Load event.
Is there a way I can pass along the current item or access the current item during the myControl_Load event? If so, how?
First, I would like to apologize, the search on the site wasn't working, so I don't know if I'm missing an existing post or not.
I have a web page that uses a master page file. I am using a third party control from Component One(TabStrip), the tabs are rendered as links on the final page. When a tab(link) is clicked, I need to load the appropriate web user control associated with that tab. Each web user control has its own post backs and methods. I know that I can load the controls on the "SelectionChanged" event of the TabStrip control, but then any postback created by the web user control that is loaded causes the page to refresh and the control was never loaded in viewstate. So, I tried to put my procedure of loading the web user control into the page_init method. This would work, if I could read which link was clicked on from within the page_init method. I tried using a javascript function to run "onclick" of the tabs and within it setting the value of a hidden control. I have verified that the javascript works and that the hidden control's value is getting set correctly. When I get into the page_init method, the value of the hidden control is not readable.
I'm tying to understand the page lifecycle to the fullest, but I don't see what I'm missing here. I know that I need to load the web user controls in the page_init method in order to persist the page as a whole, but how can I get which tab(link) was clicked to know which control should be loaded?
I have a custom control which contains (amongst other things) an imageButton.
I'm adding a handler to the "click" event of the imageButton however when the button is clicked the handler routine is not called. where I am going wrong with this? should I be handling the click event in some other way?
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I work on a custom server control that contains two grids with dynamic templatefield checkbox , the 1st one binded by SqlDataSource, the 2nd grid filled with selected rows in the 1st grid, all is clear, the 2nd grid filled appropriatly but when a button(out of the custom control) click event fired the grid disappear , Second and what is important is how to save state of the checkbox while after postback I must create the field and bind the grid ?
for Template field :
class CheckBoxTemplateHandler:ITemplate
{
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I have a user control (i.e. ascx) that comprises of two related list boxes (i.e. once you change the selected item in one list the contents of the other list update). I'm adding this user control dynamically to a page on the click event of a button (i.e. using LoadControl).I wish to set the list box datasource properties, as well as the default selected item of the parent list from my parent page so I created public properties in my user control to accomodate this. I also created an event in my user control that notifes the parent page when the selected item changes in one of the list boxes so I can update the contents of the other list box.
I understand that I have to recreate the user control on every postback in order for it to function correctly but I'm not sure exactly how I should be doing it. I've shown below what I have currently - whilst it works the problem is that on postback I'm always creating the user control with all its default properties and then updating the properties that need to change(?). For example, when the choice in theparent list box changes the datasource of the list box is set twice (once in AddControl and then again in OnParentChanged)? As the contents of the list boxes originate in a database it means I'm making unnecessary calls to the database (unless I do some something like store each unique set of data in the ViewState).
I'd be very grateful if someone could review how I've done things and illustrate how perhaps I should be doing things. I'm not sure if the way I've done this is considered the 'correct' way. For example there may be a better way of doing things would avoid setting the properties twice? I'm a bit unsure of the way I've set the datasource properties of the list boxes and bound them. I wished to set the datasource from the parent page because I might have a second user control on my page that may also use the same datasource and I could reuse it (as opposed to each control making its own call to the database) so I'd like to keep this feature if possible.It would be great if posting code in reply that you use my example as a guide so I know what you're referring to.Here's the code for my user control:
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I have a usercontrol which has a combobox inside it.
This UserControl is the inside an asp panel - and when the panel is visible, the dropdownlist within the control binds to its datasource and behaves itself.
When the panel visibility is set to false, the dropdownlist within the usercontrol is empty.