Sorry if I misunderstood but it sounds similar to something we did here
(dynamically setting captions). Our approach was to use a user control.
E.g.
<DC:DynamicCaption id="company_name" runat="server"/>
The control will use the page name it is on, and id to read its caption
from an xml file (using xpath), or in your case from whatever stores the
company / product name.
E.g
'(xpCaptions is a cached XPathDocument containing
captions)
Dim nav As XPathNavigator = xpCaptions.CreateNavigator()
Dim xpathstr As String =
"string(captions/screens/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" &
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(Me.Page.Request.PhysicalPath).ToLower &
"']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" & Me.ID.ToLower & "']/@value)"
Return CType(nav.Evaluate(xpathstr), String)
I am sure others may recommend using a resource file (not tied to the
page).
mb.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barnaby Gray
> Sent: July 6, 2005 11:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Windows Form branding
>
>
> I have a C# .NET application with lots of strings added
> through the visual designer (thus stored in the form's .resx
> file) specifying the application's company name and product name .
>
> What I want to do is change all of these instances to tags,
> for example <COMPANY_NAME> or <PRODUCT_NAME> and then
> dynamically replace these tags when the application runs with
> a company name/product name etc of my choosing.
>
> I'm guessing this involves hooking into the process .NET uses
> to extract the strings from the resx file and diplay them -
> does anybody know how i might be able to go about this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Barnaby
>
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