ASCX Control Properties

[Edneeis]

Is there a way to show the control properties in the property dialog when the control is selected? Currently if you select the control it only shows things like EnableViewState and Visible. I can set properties in the HTML declaration of the control but it'd be nice to see them in the IDE. Or is it not meant to work like that?

[hellswraith]

Here is what I have found so far....
http://www.codenotes.com/do/articles/article?articleID=775
of course, the ms site....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriWebUserControls.asp

This page though, seems to have what you need.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/May/UserDefinedCompDev.asp

Hope you know C#...

[Edneeis]

So it looks like you can't do what I was thinking. Oh well doing it through HTML or Code is fine. Thanks.

[hellswraith]

Did you see this part?

using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;

[ assembly:TagPrefix("CommonControls", "CC") ]
namespace CommonControls
{
[DefaultProperty(“myProperty”)]
public class myControl : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
{
private
public override myControl():base()
{

}
[Bindable(true), Category("Appearance")]
public string myPorperty
{
get
{
return _CSSComplete;
}
set
{
_CSSComplete = value;
}
}

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output)
{
output.write(myProperty);
}
}
}


There is a single property myProperty, which is both read & write. It is declared with three of the above-mentioned attributes. Any number of properties could be added to the class & could be accessed from the toolbox of Visual Studio.


I thought that was what your looking for....
from this link: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/May/UserDefinedCompDev.asp

[Edneeis]

Yeah I saw that but that is for Custom Controls instead of User Controls right? I didn't try it though to make sure, because I only have one property and was hoping that there was just a simple solution. Maybe I'll try converting it to a Custom Control. Does a Custom control work just like a User control? Can I still access the Page_Load event of the host?