Hi all,

Here is my situation... I need to code a web page that is going to display multiple groups of items. However, each group will be identical except for the data displayed in the objects. In this case at the very least I will have a few labels and a datagrid as a group. Depending on selection criteria I will have from 0 to 100 of these groups on a single page. I have been trying to figure out how to make this happen. One idea I came up with is since each group will have the same structure and format then why not create a single web form with the structure and items and then instantiate it as many times as I need to on a seperate page. However, I am not sure in the feasibility and if possible how do I import a webform many times from a single webform? Any ideas at all would be helpful at this point.

Thanks.

This what UserControls are for. You can create a user control that defines the layout of the item you want to repeat. Then you can have as many instances of that user control in one web form as you want (or as many as the server will handle ;)).

Alternatively, you can use one of the bindable repeating controls to repeat a layout template. The DataList and Repeater will do this very easily. If all you want is to display data in a free-form template, use the repeater control.

Peter
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