I was wondering can you expose a web user controls properties to the designer?

Also does anyone know where I can find some good articles or literature on how to create a web user control using Visual Basic? I found that every time I do a search for an example on how to create a web user control it is always in C#.


Thanks In Advance

What kinds of properties do you want ot expose on the designer? If, for example, you want to be able to provide a custom string to the User Control at design time you could add code like this in your User Control:

Public Property MyCustomString as String
'Getters and settors
End Property

Then on the designer you would see a property called MyCustomString that you could supply a value for.

As far as literature on creating Web User Controls in VB, I don't know of any off hand. Google it.

hth.
-Doug

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Thanks for your help. I want to expose the text property of a label control. Someone told me that only custom user controls can expose there properties to the designer. I will give what you reccomended a try. Thanks for your help.

I am not real sure what a 'custom user control' is. By shear definition all user controls are custom since they require the developer to implement all of the functionality. In any event you could simply do something like this in your settor of the property:

labe1.Text = Value

hth.
-Doug

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Doug / dotNet,

I think what dND means above is a custom server control. It is easy to confuse user controls with custom server controls if you are not aware there's a BIG difference.

A user control exposes its properties declaratively, and also makes them available in the Properties pane. However, if you need to expose properties to the designer, make them available from the toolbox, etc... like a regular ASP.NET web server control, you do need to make a custom server control.

Custom server controls are a very advanced topic. Whole books are written on how to compose them. Wrox has a pretty good one on the subject.

You should be able to find a simple example in VB on the MSDN. However, unless you are creating a web control library to reuse in many projects, or as part of a package you want to resell or something, then it's probably not worth the effort.

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