Awareness of user control TestContainer

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In my code for a custom user control, is there a way to determine whether or
not I am inside the standard user control TestContainer? I was hoping that I
could perhaps examine a unique characteristic of the parent, if it is
accessible. Ultimately what I would like to do is exercise more of my custom
control than just seeing how it renders, something along the lines of: if
inside the TestContainer, then show a hidden "Step" button. I could then
press the Step button to make the control do some action; press it again for
the next action, etc.

I am running VS2008, with .NET 2 or 3 or 3.5.
 
Hi Michael,

As or the custom user control, do you mean the ascx user control(or a
custom server control)?

I'm still not quite sure about the "TestContainer" you mentioned, is it the
parent container of a control on page at runtime?Generally, for any ASP.NET
server control on page, it will have a NamingContainer(if it is not the top
level control), and this NamingContainer will affect the control's actual
UniqueID and ClientID when rendering. Control can access its
NamingContainer through the "NamingContainer" property at runtime.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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Sorry for the ambiguity... this is a WinForm not a WebForm. The User Control
TestContainer is a vehicle of Visual Studio that automatically runs a user
control when you press F5 for a user control library project.
 
Thanks for the reply Michael,

Seems I also incorrectly assume that this is an ASP.NET issue(as I often
see your posts on ASP.NET :) ).

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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Hi Michael,

Thank you for your reply!

Based on my understanding, you have a user control class library project
which contains a custom user control and you create a test project for the
custom user control. What you want is to determine from within the custom
control's code whether the custom control is created inside a test
container. If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.

IMO, the custom control has no chance to know whether it is created inside
a test container or not. All classes and methods provided by the Unit
Testing Framework are used in test class and methods, rather that in the
classes or methods to test.

A workaround of your question is to add a property of type bool in the
custom control to indicate whether it is initialized inside a test
container or not. The default value of this property is false. You can set
this property to true from within the test method. You can then decide how
the custom control renders depending on this bool property.

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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