Code Blocks in Custom Control

[Darrin Boyd]

I have developed a custom control and I want to allow the
user to insert code blocks in the .aspx (or .ascx) file to
set attributes on the control. For example, I want to
allow the user to do this:

&lt;pwc:SortColumn HeadingText='<%=GetHeadingText(0)%

'/&gt;

&lt;pwc:SortColumn HeadingText='<%=GetHeadingText(1)%

'/&gt;

* The GetHeadingText(int colIndex) is a protected method
in the codebehind .cs file.

When the custom control is parsed, the default parser is
not seeing this attribute as a code block. It only sees
it as a string. Is there any way to use a custom
ControlBuilder to force the parser to evaluate this and
call the code behind method?

Thanks,
Darrin Boyd
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Rory]

why dont you just have a property that when set, calls the
GetHeadingText() method from within your control, and say
populates a private property with the heading text. You
can then use this result to populate the below code.