Hi all,

What is the recommended way to add child controls *around* existing
child controls in the CreateChildControls method (e.g. table, row and
cell controls for layout purposes)?

Is the best way to keep a reference to the existing child controls,
clear the Controls collection and then re-add everything along with the
layout controls, or insert the layout controls around the existing
controls in the existing Controls collection?

Thanks,

Paul

If I try to modify the Controls collection, I get a "The Controls
collection cannot be modified because the control contains code blocks"
error because my controls contain literal content (i.e. <%=
SomeValue%>). If I change the literal content to a <%# %> tag it
doesn't get picked up and is rendered empty.

Is there any way to insert layout controls around the existing controls
and preserve the literal content?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm stuck on this one.

Thanks,

Paul

paul.hester (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Paul, in resposne to your previous post, i have already explained to you why
that is happening and how to do it properly if you want to use inline code
block expression syntax nested within your custom control.
Let me know what about it did not convince you. Also you keep posting in two
different groups simultaneously, and it will only become hard for you to
keep track.

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...=&rnum=1&hl=en

Regards,
Alessandro Zifiglio
http://www.AsyncUI.net

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Hi Alessandro,

Thanks for your reply, and sorry about the multiple posts - I've been
getting different responses in different groups.

I haven't tried your example yet because I couldn't see how to add the
layout elements between the child controls. I need to have table, tr
and td elements around the controls and have certain controls grouped
together in a td (e.g. all validator objects in the same td). Also,
certain custom attributes will determine the layout too. I could just
have these elements in the aspx markup file, but I'm going to be using
this control all over my site and want to avoid the code repetition.

I hope I've made this clear. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

Alessandro Zifiglio wrote: