I have a custom control that works fine with it's viewstate when it is
placed as a tag inside the aspx (I need to read if a Checkbox, rendered by
the custom control, is checked). Problem is that I want to create it
dynamically (in Page_Load or the OnInit of the aspx) and than add it ...

I've problems using Color for a WebControl
I've declared a property called TEST which is of the type Color. Comparing
to existing Color properties, such as ForeColor I can spot the following
difference;

Hi!!
can someone tell me where I can find some information to get this cool
feature to hidde text as it's used in the ASP.NET Forums beta search ???
for example here:

Is it possible to make a custom WebControl reder itself at design time?
I've made a WebControl that contains a Label and a RadioButtonList. It works
fine at run time, but at design time it just draws a solid while box.
Neither the Label nor the RadioButtonList render themself.  Am I ...

At designtime, how do I detect when a Style subproperty (e.g., Font.Bold) has changed so that I can
redraw the display?

I've problems with a custom WebControl. The control has properties for
letting the user set the relative path to some images and a xml file that
the controls need. In runtime the images are displayed and the control can
load the xml file. In design time however, this fails because ...

I need some help to sort things with a server control.
Two linkbuttons, one will read a directory and create a checkbox for each
file in the directory.
After choosing files by clicking the checkboxes the other linkbutton is

Hi, there
I'm trying to write a non-rendering component that is manipulated at design time in VS.Net
By non-rendering I mean the component doesn't generate any HTML tags
In fact, the component is supposed to be used both for windows applications and web applications just like the ...

I wrote a templated control for generating queries. initially, I had set
ParseChildren=true. This worked really well, but I though I could improve
upon it to allow users to use declarative syntax for some of the collections
in the control , such as SearchFields.  Thus, I set ...

I have a custom user control. In that custom control MyControl. I am
exposing a property called MyItems. The MyItems is a
strongly typed collection of MyItem. I am exposing a MyItems in the user
control as a public property. I want to be able to add items to the MyItems

how can I find out in Page_Load which linkbutton event is fired?
Thanks for any help in advance!!
Andreas

Most of the time you bind a datagrid when it's not a PostBack. The DataGrid then uses ViewState to remember all the data to rebuild it on subsequent postbacks. Thats great when it is expensive to grab the data, like running a sql query might be
If you've ever done a View Source on ...

I'm developing a custom control which hosts several class properties.
for instance:
The control hosts a composite BarStyle property which has thre
properties and a simple Count property (integer)

Newbie question - I'm sorry if this is basic but I've been struggling with
it for 1 1/2 days now and was dreaming about it last night. Please save me
from further dreams about my programming!
I had a webform on which I had a table with 3 DIV's (2-5) set to

Can anyone suggest a book or two on how to build webcontrols that work with various data sources?
The Microsoft documentation absolutely sucks the big one (IMHO, whoever released the framework
documentation as it currently stands ought to be summarily fired for gross incompetence).