Viewing Composite Controls at Design Time

20 Dec 2005 3:14 PM

Jeffrey Jones

Hello All,

I have created a composite control consisting of a checkbox, label,
htmlfileinput, button and hyperlink controls. I have compiled my control
and, after doing that, created a project so that I could attempt to see
how my control operates.

In the designer for my asp.net project, I get an error creating control
"box" where my composite control should be. What could be causing this?

I have recently uninstalled and reinstalled VS.NET 2003, IIS and the
dotnet framework 1.1.

Thank you in advance,
Jeff Jones

20 Dec 2005 5:59 PM

addup

If you mean a webcontrol (i.e. derived from WebControl) You are in for
a whole new world of fun

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconenhancingdesign-timesupport.asp

If you mean a Web user controls ( with an .ascx file) then I'm not sure
if it *can* be accessed from outside the project where you made it.
Copy the ascx into the second project

There's some good info in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag/html/DIforWC-CH03.asp

Hope this helps
-- addup --

21 Dec 2005 4:37 AM

dbottjer

Pay close attention to your namespace. Make sure you are referencing your
control properly. Double check your assembly and class names.

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"Jeffrey Jones" wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have created a composite control consisting of a checkbox, label,
> htmlfileinput, button and hyperlink controls. I have compiled my control
> and, after doing that, created a project so that I could attempt to see
> how my control operates.
>
> In the designer for my asp.net project, I get an error creating control
> "box" where my composite control should be. What could be causing this?
>
> I have recently uninstalled and reinstalled VS.NET 2003, IIS and the
> dotnet framework 1.1.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jeff Jones
>