I've been attempting to write a server-side web control and have run
into a bit of a hurdle. In my web control, I'm overriding the
CreateChildControls method to load a user control, like this:
protected override void CreateChildControls ()
{
EditorControl oEditorControl = (EditorControl)
Page.LoadControl("editorcontrol.ascx");
Controls.Add(oEditorControl);
}
Them reason I'm doing this is because I have a lot of client-side code
to generate and it would take a while and be extremely difficult to
debug if I where to use the StringBuilder class and pass it to the
HTMLTextWriters write method.
My problem comes in to play when I attempt to access a property of the
Server Side WebControl from within the User Control. It was my belief
that the following snippet should work correctly:
<%= this.Parent.ScriptPath %>
However I get an error saying that ScriptPath cannot be found in the
Control scope. Is there something I'm doing wrong? To get around this
for the time being, after creating the UserControl by calling
Page.LoadControl in the CreateChildControls method, I'm setting a field
called parent to the current Server-Side WebControl.
Also, is there a better way for me to separate my presentation logic for
my WebControl logic that wouldn't require me to overload the
CreateChildControls method?
Thanks,
James
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