I can't seem to get the id of the child controls of my composite control. I
can get the unique id but the id when I try to access it via the controls
collection comes back null. Do I need to add a form tag within the control
rather  than on aspx parent page. Any ideas? Regards, ...

  I had built a composite control but I don't want to preserve control
state automatically.  I set the enableviewstate property of every sub
control within the composite control to false. But it does not work,
controls still preserve the state automatically. How can I set the asp ...

I am attempting to respond to the Click event of a button (WebControls.Button) that is programatically created by a WebControl. I want the event handler to be defined in the WebForm that is using my WebControl.
I bind an event handler to the Click event of the button, but it never ...

I want to build a templated control which will be the graphical
representation of a complex object.
So the object has a list of items (line items on an order) and some items
can contain other items (specifically, some items can be custom CDs with

Hello i try do this.
Class DemoBase
    Public Delegate Sub DemoItemEventHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e _
    As DemoItemEventArgs)

I want to set the datasource to a server control at run-time only
(because the datasource is stored in the web cache). The following
code I thought should do the trick, but Site is ALWAYS nothing.
If Not Me.Site Is Nothing AndAlso Me.Site.DesignMode = False Then

Hi Friends,
I'm building a web control. I came to a point that I have to persist a property (especially TabIndex) in the control's tag when the control is dropped on a Web form.
I tried several methods but none of them worked. Here is one of the methods I tried:
   ...

Hi. I'm developing a custom webcontrol that have a property derived from
BaseCollection that realizes a collection of particular web controls. When i
edit the collection with the associated collection editor, it seems to work
but the (databindings) property throws a ...

Dear Colleagues:
Thank you for taking the time to read this - I recently posted here with
regards to what was possible with .NET.
I have been working as a systems engineer for about fifteen years now.  My

 Control.DataBind() performs databinding for the current control and all child controls.  How would I (within a Control subclass) _just_ perform databinding for the current control, and not the children?

Dear Colleagues:
I am a systems guy who has been working with hardware, networking and basic
scripting for ten years or so.  I have been given the opportunity to attend
.Net classes of all sorts as part of the MSDN training track.  I already

is there a simple control to add in my custom server control to select a
date. On my page I show several fields and I prefer something like a
datefield control used in windows forms. Does anyone has suggestions.
Second question:

I have a user control that need to have a hidden textbox.  (I have some JS
that needs to get some info out of it)  If I make a standard textbox
(<asp:TextBox ID="txtTest" Runat="server" />) in my control it works
fine....of course it shows it on the screen

I have a 3rd party component in my asp.net page.  It has a Prerender
event that I can hook.  Within that event, how can I find the final
HTML output that it makes?  I would like to modify the HTML string
before it goes to the page's rendered output.

   I built some web controls and one of them inherits textbox class.So it
would be displayed when assembly is added to toolbox.I know it can be
unchecked in "Customize Toolbox" window when adding assembly,but the
checkbox in "Customize Toolbox" window is checked by default.Are ...