Ok, I'm pretty new to asp.net, and in classic asp, this would work just fine but I get a couple errors on this: Usually something in the flavor of "code blocks not allowed in this context" or something like that. Anyone?

--code begin
<%@ Control Language="c#" %>
<%@ Import namespace="DrcComponents" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web" %>
<%@ Import namespace="System.Data" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="drcControl" Namespace="Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls" %>

<script language="c#" runat="server">
string strTabs="";

void Page_Load()
{
    ExcelSheets newSheet=new ExcelSheets();
    DataSet tabStuff=newSheet.GetExcelWorkSheet(@"F:\Share\MAN H",@"MNAA9B.XLS");


    foreach(DataTable myTable in tabStuff.Tables)
    {
        strTabs += "<drcControl:Tab Text=\"" + myTable.TableName + "\" />";
    }
    testThis.Text = strTabs.ToString();
}
</script>
<asp:TextBox id="testThis" runat="server" /><br />

<drcControl:TabStrip id="ts1" runat="server"
   TabDefaultStyle="color:#aaaaaa;background-color:#EEEEEE;
   border-color:#AAAAAA;border-width:1px;border-style:Solid;
   font-weight:bold;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;height:21;
   width:79;text-align:center;"
   TabHoverStyle="color:blue"
   TabSelectedStyle="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;
   border-bottom:none"
   SepDefaultStyle="background-color:#FFFFFF;border-color:#AAAAAA;
   border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-top:none;border-left:none;
   border-right:none">
   <%=strTabs%>

    <drcControl:Tab Text="Contact Us" />
    <drcControl:Tab Text="Home" />
</drcControl:TabStrip>

--code end

What is strTabs?

Hello,

I see a couple of server tags that don't have runat="server" attribute declared... could this be a problem?

Also, instead of writing the content to the screen, in ASP.NET you need to create the object and add it to a collection, similar to:

Dim objControl as new Microsoft.We.Ui.WebControls.Tab
objControl.Text = myTable.TableName
ts1.Controls.Add(objControl)

also, you may want to put this code around:

if ( !Page.IsPostback ) {

}

So that the addition will only happen once.

Hope this helps,

Brian

Oh I should state that I've never used that control before and my syntax may be incorrect.

Brian