Hey guys,
i wrote a little custom web control so i can reuse it in my project, basically it has a bunch of div's and labels etc, and then normally within the main div, it should be capable of storing any normal HTML makrup of control, so i was researching and discovered i need to set the ParseChildren attribute to false and override AddParsedSubObject and CreateChildControls, however, for the AddParseSubObject method, i have to go check specifically the type of controls, otherwise they wont render correctly, my question is, how do u handle all the web controls, ill show u some code:
protected override void AddParsedSubObject(object obj)
{
if (obj is LiteralControl)
{
this.ViewState["InnerContents"] = ((LiteralControl)obj).Text;
}
else if (obj is Repeater)
{
mRepeaters.Add((Repeater)obj);
}
else if (obj is DataList)
{
mDataLists.Add((DataList)obj);
}
else if (obj is WebControl)
{
mWebControls.Add((WebControl)obj);
}
else
{
base.AddParsedSubObject(obj);
}
}
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
if (mRepeaters.Count > 0)
{
foreach (Repeater repeater in mRepeaters)
{
PaneContents.Controls.Add(repeater);
}
}
if (mDataLists.Count > 0)
{
foreach (DataList dataList in mDataLists)
{
PaneContents.Controls.Add(dataList);
}
}
if (mWebControls.Count > 0)
{
foreach (WebControl webControl in mWebControls)
{
PaneContents.Controls.Add(webControl);
}
}
}
As you can see it seems a little cumbersome, adding a type everytime i want to support a control, PaneContents is the div which i want to add the control to.
I would of thought just checking WebControl and LiteralControl should suffice, but it doesn't.
My main objective is to achieve:
<cc:MyControl runat="server" ID="test">
//markup or Webcontrol here...
</cc:MyControl>
Thanks guys
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