I have a question on how to render a usercontrol and have it's rendered html be stored in string form.

so for instance,

UserControl: UC_Header.ascx

Is there a way to do something like:

In Default.aspx:

Dim Header as new UC_Header()
Dim sHeader as string = Header.Render()

So when i call the render method it will run the control as normal and call it's page_load method and return me back the same html as if it were called by the page as normal.

thanks in advanced!

I think that the Render() method takes an HtmlWriter class as an argument. Perhaps you can create an instance of that so that you can "capture" the output HTML stream.