"Darin" wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I have a particular situation where I'd like to serve up the content of
> essentially static html coming out of a database for a website.
>
> I've created a generic user control to actually handle retrieving the
> html text and I've overridden the RENDER method to render the html at
> the point the control is rendered (the static text actually sits inside
> a master template page and the static control is dynamically created on
> the master page)
>
> All this works fine as it is.
>
> However, I'd like to be able to use small inline expressions (of the
> form
> <%= FunctionName() %> at various places in the otherwise static html and
> have those expressions evaluated when the page is rendered, just like a
> normal ASPX or ASCX page. But that doesn't seem to work, when you write
> the text as output through the HTMLTextWriter you get through the RENDER
> method
>
> I assume I'm not inserting the html early enough in the rendering
> pipeline.
>
> Would anyone have any ideas how to go about doing this (or maybe there's
> a better way to accomplish the same thing that I'm not familiar with?
>
> Thanks
> Darin
>
>