Best Practice, creating a composite of controls

[Guest]

I have a collection of controls I am using on several pages. I have:
1 Image
2 Labels

I want to combine these so that I will also have certain properties
available programatically.

I want to be able to set a 'photoId' Property, that, when set, will call
data from a database, set the Image's src property, and set the Label text.

I want 2 other properties (ReadOnly) to be available programatically, that
when the Get is fired, checks a couple of things and returns the result.

I know how to do all this, except to combine them in one control that I can
reuse. I'm doing it over and over again in 3 or 4 pages, but when I tried to
create a user control with codebehind, I am running into trouble.

Can you point me to online resources that could give me a walkthrough?

 

[Guest]

I learned how to do user controls from this MSDN article (there are a number
of sub-articles in the TOC on the left):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ludingpageletcontrolinanotherwebformspage.asp

Hope that helps.

 

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

I would highly recommend the book ASP.NET Server controls and components,
written by Nikhil Kothari.

http://www.nikhilk.net/ (look to the right)

It is singlely the best asp.net book I have read.

This one comes close, but really doesn't have anything to do with server
controls or asp.net.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735614229/102-3816541-3359347?v=glance

HTH,

bill

 

[Guest]

That helped, got me in the right direction. The thing I don't like, is now I
have to address my object like this:
CType(Me.Preview1, previewCtrl).ImageOrderNum = Me._jobNum
CType(Me.Preview1, previewCtrl).PhotoID = Me._photo

whenever I want to access properties.
Monday I am going to try to work on raising and handling events from that in
the consuming pageI am wondering if I may need to create my own server
control... but I'm not sure.