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A server control in classic ASP.NET is a component that dynamically renders a segment of markup to the client. Controls can be written in markup or coded, and can be bound to data and participate in different phases of the ASP.NET request-handling lifecycle. Out-of-box examples range from the simple (CheckBox which wraps the HTML input checkbox) and more complex (GridView which can be bound to various data sources and has built-in paging and sorting).

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Test output from HtmlTextWriter

Quite simply I want to be able to test that a Asp.Net web forms server control is outputting the correct Html as it will be building dynamic content. I'm just starting to create the control and wanted to do it in a TDD style building up the Html…
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Content within a user control

I am almost too embarrassed to ask this question, but here we go... I am not an expert with user controls, and need some design advise regarding trying to achieve a specific desired functionality. The goal is to have a usercontrol that would…
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Creating a simple templated control. Having issues

I'm trying to create a really simple templated control. I've never done it before, but I know a lot of my controls I have created in the past would have greatly benefited if I included templating ability - so I'm learning now. The problem I have is…
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ScriptControlDescriptor.AddProperty & Read-Only Properties

I'm creating an ASP.NET Server Control with an associated client-side API. In my GetScriptDescriptors() method I'm associating a property called "rows"... descriptor.AddProperty("rows", this.IntRows); In my client-side API I want my "rows" property…
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ASP.NET Server Controls and <%$ %> params like ConnectionStrings

Is there a complete list of the objects you can tap into with <%$ %> tags in ASP.NET I know you can do things like <%$ ConnectionStrings:northwind %> in the ConnectionString attribute of the tag. Can you also do this with Cookies…
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Is there a performance difference between custom server controls and user controls?

Consider two controls that do basically the same things. For instance, a gridview-like-widget with paging, sorting, and data caching. Both bound with the same 10,000 row data source. One is a custom server control and one is a user control. Is there…
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Always use SUBCLASSES of ASP.NET server controls? If not, why not?

In my pre-ASP.NET development environment, there was a near-universal best practice: * NEVER use the native controls! * Instead, subclass ALL the controls, and ALWAYS use the subclassed version. Why? Because that gave you a hook... one place to…
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Why do my dynamically added controls loose their values after Postback?

To ask my question I have created an aspx file containing a Button and a DataList with an SqlDataSource:
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How to test asp.net server controls

We have developed a number of ASP.Net server controls and we need to test them. I want to instantiate a control, set some properties, call CreateChildControls and test the control-hierarchy. I run into a number of problems: The controls rely on…
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ASP.net weekly schedule control

Can anyone recommend a free asp.net control that I can use for the following: Weekdays Monday-Saturday along the top row Time of day along left hand side Template fields for the actual data Databindable Cells span the rows based on the start time…
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Excel like server side control for ASP.NET

We have a requirement to increase the functionality of a grid we are using to edit on our webapp, and our manager keeps citing Excel as the perfect example for a data grid :/ He still doesn't really get that a Spreadsheet like control doesn't exist…
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Can I automatically attach to the lifecycle of ANY server-enabled HTML tag?

If a "server-enabled" HTML tag is in a Web form, like this --

-- is there any way for me to attach to its rendering? I assume once they have runat="server", they must have a lifecycle of some kind. I'd like to attach some code…

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ASP.Net LinkButton CommandArgument property ignores <%= .. %>

I'm trying to do what I thought was a very simple operation to set a property on an ASP.Net LinkButton control but for some reason ASP.Net is ignoring the tags and just passing through the value as a string.
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Are the Internet Explorer Web Controls IE only?

Recently, I came across a set of Internet Explorer Web Controls from Microsoft. These look to me to be older controls from the pre-standards era of Microsoft's asp.net development. I'm curious as to whether or not these controls work well with…
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