Hi
I have a scenario where I have a webcontrol on an ASP.Net 2.0 page, in some
cases I want to dynamically load another webcontrol instead of the control I
have. I want to load one of several possible webcontrols instead, and I
would like it to be so that I don't have to add a reference to all the
possible alternate webcontrols.
Is this possible?

Kind Regards,
Allan Ebdrup

Page.Controls.Add() is your friend.
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As is Control.LoadControl(String)

OK
Now I've tried the following:
Create a control that's called DynamicLoad with a Label in it, and inserted
it on an ASP page Now I want to swap the DynamicLoad control with another
control, I try to find the control in Page.Controls like this:
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foreach(Control c in Page.Controls){
But the output is:
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c.GetType:System.Web.UI.LiteralControl
c.GetType:System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead
c.GetType:System.Web.UI.LiteralControl
c.GetType:System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm
c.GetType:System.Web.UI.LiteralControl
---

So how do I find the DynamicLoad control and swap it, when Page.Controls
contains the controls inside the DynamicLoad control?

Kind Regards,
Allan Ebdrup

Found the problem, the control was nested inside the form

Now I've found the control I want to swap in the variable c, and I try to
execute the following:
Page.Controls[Page.Controls.IndexOf(c)] = new
System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlButton();

But I get an error that Page.Controls is read only, how do I swap the
control?
Is there some other event than Page_Load that allows you to modify
Page.Controls?

Kind Regards,
Allan Ebdrup

Tried Page_Init, still can't modify Page.Controls

Now I've tried to override FrameworkInitialize, and the first thing I do in
my override is call base.FrameworkInitialize, but when I loop through the
controls on the page I can't find the control I want to swap, it doesn't
seem to be loaded yet.

Kind Regards,
Allan Ebdrup

Found the problem, seems you cant change page.controls in the control, if i
do the swap in the main pages Page_Load there is no problem.

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