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I am creating a custom control which is a form generator. Basically you
define some parameters, and it will build input control (textbox), tooltip,
validation code etc in one swoop.
Something such as:
1 <tt
ataForm ID="DataForm1" runat="server">
2 <Columns>
3 <ttataColumn ID="FirstName" runat="server"
AllowDottedDecimal="False" AllowDottedHex="False"
4 AllowDottedOctal="False" AllowHybrid="False"
AllowIPv6="False" AllowTerritories="False"
5 Exponent="False" Format="" Fractional="False"
InvalidMessage="" Label="First Name" Lowercase="False"
6 MissingMessage="" RegExp="" Required="True" Scheme="False"
Signed="False" Trim="False"
7 UCFirst="False" Uppercase="False"
ValidationType="ValidationTextbox" Value="">
8 </ttataColumn>
9 <ttataColumn ID="LastName" runat="server"
AllowDottedDecimal="False" AllowDottedHex="False"
10 AllowDottedOctal="False" AllowHybrid="False"
AllowIPv6="False" AllowTerritories="False"
11 Exponent="False" Format="" Fractional="False"
InvalidMessage="" Label="Last Name" Lowercase="False"
12 MissingMessage="" RegExp="" Required="True" Scheme="False"
Signed="False" Trim="False"
13 UCFirst="False" Uppercase="False"
ValidationType="ValidationTextbox" Value="">
14 </ttataColumn>
15 </Columns>
16 </ttataForm>
So lets pretend your form has 30 columns. It will create 30 textbox's based
on the parameters you set etc.
I am new to ASP.NET so please bare with me. I have all this working
currently. My main issue is, if a developer is using my form generator, how
do they access those inputs in the postback?
Sure they can do dataForm.FindControl("something"); 30 times and then if
textbox, if combobox, build SQL for insert/update etc. But this seems very
ugly to me.
How can I make the TextBox's that my control generates based on the
parameters visible to the designer so someone can do something such as:
Text1.Text in the postback codebehind?
I am positive designer interface of some sort can help here but I am not
very experienced. I have only done some basic designer stuff like
CollectionEditor's etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and take care.
define some parameters, and it will build input control (textbox), tooltip,
validation code etc in one swoop.
Something such as:
1 <tt
ataForm ID="DataForm1" runat="server">2 <Columns>
3 <tt
ataColumn ID="FirstName" runat="server" AllowDottedDecimal="False" AllowDottedHex="False"
4 AllowDottedOctal="False" AllowHybrid="False"
AllowIPv6="False" AllowTerritories="False"
5 Exponent="False" Format="" Fractional="False"
InvalidMessage="" Label="First Name" Lowercase="False"
6 MissingMessage="" RegExp="" Required="True" Scheme="False"
Signed="False" Trim="False"
7 UCFirst="False" Uppercase="False"
ValidationType="ValidationTextbox" Value="">
8 </tt
ataColumn>9 <tt
ataColumn ID="LastName" runat="server" AllowDottedDecimal="False" AllowDottedHex="False"
10 AllowDottedOctal="False" AllowHybrid="False"
AllowIPv6="False" AllowTerritories="False"
11 Exponent="False" Format="" Fractional="False"
InvalidMessage="" Label="Last Name" Lowercase="False"
12 MissingMessage="" RegExp="" Required="True" Scheme="False"
Signed="False" Trim="False"
13 UCFirst="False" Uppercase="False"
ValidationType="ValidationTextbox" Value="">
14 </tt
ataColumn>15 </Columns>
16 </tt
ataForm>So lets pretend your form has 30 columns. It will create 30 textbox's based
on the parameters you set etc.
I am new to ASP.NET so please bare with me. I have all this working
currently. My main issue is, if a developer is using my form generator, how
do they access those inputs in the postback?
Sure they can do dataForm.FindControl("something"); 30 times and then if
textbox, if combobox, build SQL for insert/update etc. But this seems very
ugly to me.
How can I make the TextBox's that my control generates based on the
parameters visible to the designer so someone can do something such as:
Text1.Text in the postback codebehind?
I am positive designer interface of some sort can help here but I am not
very experienced. I have only done some basic designer stuff like
CollectionEditor's etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and take care.