User control to custom control

[JJ]

Whats the best way to convert a user control to a custom server control?

i.e. I created a .aspx control using the designer to create the look of the
control. I now want to use this in other projects and compile it as a dll.
However, I understand that I now need to create the controls interface
elements via code. Is there a way to easily translate a previously created
interface to be created by code?

Not sure I am making myself very clear but hopefully someone will be able to
understand...
Thanks
JJ

 

[Guest]

"Best" way, dunno. But essentially you need to get the UI generation of the
UserControl ascx elements into the CustomControl's various Render methods.
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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for Peter's input.

Hi JJ,

So far for template based control (ascx usercontrol and ASPX page), there
hasn't any good means to directly convert them into custom control.
However, I think the following means is worth a try:

Since ASP.NET will dynamically compile ASPX or ascx into dynamic class at
runtime, you can manually use precompilation to precompile the website and
get the precompiled assemblies(you can choose non-updatable so that ascx ,
aspx will also be precompiled into assembly). After that you can use
reflector utility to inspect the precompiled code which should contains the
code that programmatically construct the ascx/aspx UI. Of course, you need
to modify them since those dynamically generated code is not quite human
readable, but can be used as a reference. How do you think?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi JJ,

Have you got any progress or do you have any further questions? If so,
please feel free to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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From: (e-mail address removed) (Steven Cheng[MSFT])
Organization: Microsoft
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:17:48 GMT
Subject: RE: User control to custom control