Using a property to define layout in User Control

I've been searching across the web but can't find the result to something that I imagine is easy to do.

What I've got is a User Control with a property called Layout which can either Brief or Full. If Layout=Brief then I want it to display an ItemTemplate with a different table layout compared to the layout used if Layout=Full. Each template is signficantly different. However they need to access the same data so I thought it would surely make sense to use the one User Control.

So basically, can I create 2 different templates and call the appropriate one depending on the property value.

Thanks!

Yes you can do this in the code behind of the user control. First declare a public string called Layout outside of any prodecure (right after class declaration is best):-

Public String Layout

Then when placing your user control set this property:-

<udd:MyUserControl id="blah" runat="server" Layout="Brief" />

Now in the Load event of the control you can check it:-

If Layout="brief" then
'brief implementation
else
'Full Implementation
End If

Thanks for your reply. That's what I did too. I've used the LoadTemplate method to load up the appropriate template depending on what Layout value was passed in through the property.

Cheers