RenderContents not rendering programmatically set attributes inherited from System.Web.UI.WebControl

[Nathan Sokalski]

I have a custom control that inherits from System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image.
When overriding the RenderContents method, I include the following lines of
code:

Me.ImageUrl="myurlstring"
MyBase.RenderContents(writer)

However, when I run the control, it renders the following:

<img src="" style="border-width:0px;" />

Notice that the "src" attribute has an empty string as it's value. However,
when I ran the debugger, it showed that the specified value did get assigned
to Me.ImageUrl, so I would expect it to render:

<img src="myurlstring" style="border-width:0px;" />

I have tried this same test with other properties such as AlternateText, and
the same thing happened (they did not render). However, I once wrote a
custom control that inherited System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList in
which I override RenderContents the same way (I set an inherited property
using Me.Property=Value and then call MyBase.RenderContents(writer)), and
that worked fine. Why is it not working here? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Nathan Sokalski]

I found my problem. I probably should have realized this sooner (since it's
something I already knew), but it was simply the fact that the attributes in
the actual tag are rendered in the Render method, and RenderContents is only
for children and stuff between the opening and closing tags. Problem Solved!