Has anybody seen a visual tool for creating custom controls?

[JohnH.]

Hi all,

I need to create custom control ASP.Net, a composite control with about
a dozen standard child controls. It looks like I'm going to have to
hand code the creation and positioning of all the child controls. Has
anybody sees a visual tool for laying out child controls in a custom
control? Am I missing something here, or is that just the way it is?

Thanks,
John

 

[Brock Allen]

I don't know of one. The cloest thing I've seen is ASP.NET User Controls

And I've heard of people taking the generated code for the ASCX and then
copying that into their custom composite control implementation. I guess
that'd work (but seems just as tedious to me).

 

[JohnH.]

Hmmm.... that is an interesting idea, taking the code from a user
control and porting it over to a custom control. Yeah, it does sound a
little tedious (Visual Studio spoils us so). But, I think that will
help me out for what I want to do. Thanks for the idea Brock.

 

[recoil]

If somebody knew a reliable way to get ahold of the UserControl's
Contents i wouldn't mind trying to take a stab at the actual parsing.
I've not bothered to ry doing it because attempting to get the controls