Hi

I'm trying to load/instaniate a user control at runtime, I had done some work on this sometime ago but I'm having trouble remembering all the syntax.

I thought the assembly was loaded through "System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(<File Name & Path>). then create an object variable and assign the assembly to that object, which would then allow you to use the control. But I cannot get the object variable to instaniate with a copy of the assembly, and cannot find any examples that user a user control in this way, all the examples show how to retrieve parameters from the assembly which is not what I want to do.

Or is there another way to load a user control at runtime?

Regards


Duncan

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Duncan

For the user control myUserControl.ascx with a codebehind class of myUserControl you would use something like this:

objMyControl = LoadControl("myUserControl.aspx"), myUserControl

If you need to manipulate properties on that control, you should convert it to the known control type.

objMyControl = CType(LoadControl("myUserControl.aspx"), myUserControl)
objMyControl.StringProperty = "hello world"
objMyControl.IntProperty = 8

Then you could add that to your form or some placeholder with:

<some control or the page>.Controls.Add(objMyControl)

Peter

In DS.ascx, I have 40 input controls like textboxes, dropdownlist, checkbox, etc. and save buttons etc....

I used this DS.ascx in another control (by dragging and dropping into) "UseDSControl.ascx" by using the following code:

UseDSControl.ascx.vb: g_ctlDS = LoadControl("ctlDS.ascx")

and then when I try to set the control default value (or) accessing values for textbox, it says txtname/chkallow not available. Because it's protected in ctlDS.ascx, I changed it to "public withevents txtname as textbox" but it automatically changes back.

see the following: how to do this in ctlUseDSControl.ascx.vb without writing public properities for each control to set/get values in ctlDS.ascx:

ctlUseDSControl.ascx.vb:

if g_ctlDS.chkAllow then
    'call function 1
else
    'call function 2
end if

g_ctllDS.txtName="ABC"

Please let me know ASAP.


Thanks for your help in advance.

Cross post of http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36335. Please see there for answer.

Can you please not cross-post? Also, picking a right forum for your question (e.g. not a book specific one, or general VB.NET but an ASP.NET forum) generally helps in getting a better answer.
Also, ASAP may not be the best way to trigger people to give you a quick answer.

Cheers,

Imar