I'm writing some custom controls, and I'd like to be able to remove all
unnecessary whitespace, etc. from my output.  Ideally, I would just render
as normal, then remove this extra whitespace as the last step in the
rendering process.  I'm sure I saw code to do this, but now I can't ...

I have seen several composite control examples where LoadViewState and
SaveViewState are overloaded to track viewstate on complex objects
such as styles, but I cannot find anything that tells me why I need to
do this.

I know more html is needed to really produce this but enough is here
for me to ask my question. So, this HTML code produce 2 buttons. One
button is a HTML control and the other is ASP Web or Server Control.
Why are there 2 ways to create buttons if they so the same thing? Do

I have a few questions regarding composite controls
1) My composite controls are created based on a property of my control.
When the postback of a page occurs due to a button click, my
CreateChildControls() method is called before the button code is executed,

Should I include my designers in the same assembly as my controls?  This
seems to me to be a bit of a mix up of purposes.  Do you people typically
provide a single assembly with both controls + designers in, or do you
create an additional ".Design" assembly in which you place all of ...

I am reading off menu items from an XML file.
The problem I have is how to create these menu items into link buttons
on the fly. As the number of menu items will vary depending on the
contents of the xml file. So I cannot initialise these all these link

I have a ASP web page that has its own codebehind vb file.
But then I am using a composite control in that page. The code for the
control is built from a vb file. But I having problems as I can't get
MS VS.net to create the DLL of the composite control in the BIN

How do I store an image and a web custom control's dll in a multifile
assembly so that the image can be retrieved and displayed while the control
is in design mode?  This would allow the control to display a company logo
while in design and ensure that the logo's image file does ...

I need help with the control
In my database will store page detail including field name and type of control to display in the page such as
Page 1
Name , textbox

I'm sure this has been asked before...
Is there a setting or attribute that I can specify on my control to tell the
page parser to ignore literal content when parsing children of my custom
control?

I have a dropwnlist of fixed width. The item names in the dropdown list are
quite big. The Tooltip property for a dropdownlist control doesn’t work!.
So using DHTML, I refreshed the contents of a DIV on the mouseover event of
the dropdownlist control.

How do I implement design time support for a web custom control? For some
reason the control can't seem to find System.Web.UI.Design and I get the
following compiler error:
C:\Documents and Settings\MLibby\My Documents\Visual Studio

Ive a annoying problem when creating Custom WebControl.
When i create this sample control in codebehind. It renders as:
<span id="testctrl"><input name="testctrl:testctrl"
id="testctrl_testctrl" type="text" value="TestValue" /></span>

In my CreateChildControls() function, I am adding onClick code to a HyperLink
control. The OnClick makes a call to a javascript function and looks like
this:
_hlDisplay.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "javascript:showPopup(document.all." +