Re: Template data is not being replaced in a Templated ASP.NET server control...

Mike Andrews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for the response Adam.

Would you be able to provide an example?
I'm not sure what you mean about the DataBind on the scanner control.

Thanks,
Mike


On 3/29/07, Adam Sills <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You have two problems.
>
> 1. You're not calling DataBind on your scanner control
> 2. WebControl by itself does not loop through its child controls and call
> DataBind on them in its DataBind call. You need to do that yourself or
> inherit from CompositeControl instead.
>
> Adam..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Andrews
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] Template data is not being replaced in a Templated
> ASP.NET server control...
>
> Guys,
>
> I'm really lost now.  I cannot, I repeat cannot, get the data in my
> container control that represents the template to work.
> If you notice in my markup, I have this: <%# Container.Text %>.  When the
> template control is created (MyContainer) and I call the Instantiate, this
> value is not replaced with the message "The default container text!" as it
> should have been, but instead is replaced with nothing.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.  I'm really at my wits end with this
> one.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Here's my asp.net markup:
>
> <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs"
> Inherits="_Default" %>
> <%@ Register Assembly="Scanner" Namespace="Scanner" TagPrefix="cc1" %>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
> <head runat="server">
>    <title>Untitled Page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
>    <form id="form1" runat="server">
>    <div>
>        <cc1:ScannerControl id="ScannerControl1_1" runat="server">
>            <Template>
>                <h1><%# Container.Text %></h1>
>            </Template>
>        </cc1:ScannerControl>
> </div>
>    </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Here's the result of the page when it's run:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
> <head><title>
> Untitled Page
> </title></head>
> <body>
>    <form name="form1" method="post" action="Default.aspx" id="form1">
> <div>
> <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE"
> value="/wEPDwUJNTgwMjcwMjU1ZGTpLl3HHZKhrXybhi5mD/cUEBCBwQ==" />
> </div>
>    <div>
>        <span id="ScannerControl1_1">
>                <h1></h1>
>            </span>
> </div>
>    </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Here is a really scaled down version of my code:
>
>
>    [ToolboxData("<{0}:ScannerControl runat=server></{0}:ScannerControl>")]
>    public class ScannerControl : WebControl {
>        private ITemplate _template;
>        [TemplateContainer(typeof(MyContainer))]
>        [PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
>        public ITemplate Template {
>            get { return _template; }
>            set { _template = value; }
>        }
>
>        protected override void CreateChildControls() {
>            this.Controls.Clear();
>            if (this.Template != null) {
>                MyContainer mc = new MyContainer("The default container
> text!");
>                this.Template.InstantiateIn(mc);
>                this.Controls.Add(mc);
>            }
>            base.CreateChildControls();
>        }
>    }
>
>    public class MyContainer : Control, INamingContainer {
>        public MyContainer(string text) {
>            this.Text = text;
>        }
>
>        private string _text;
>        public string Text {
>            get { return _text; }
>            set { _text = value; }
>        }
>    }
>
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