Extending a 3rd party control

[Randy]

I'm trying to extend the Infragistics Webcombo. I create my own server
control and set all
the properties that I want to standardize on in the constructor. However,
drag my control onto the design view of my aspx page, it puts all
the original properties in the html. For example, I want all my drop
downs to be 80px wide. So I want to
default this in the constructor but allow developers to override if need be.
However, now the html properties have a value of 200px.

Is there anyway to tell the server control to not pull in properties into
the html?

-Randy

 

[Rico]

Randy,

I have been working the several past few days with Infragistics, and
extending two of their controls in my own composite control. I have not
experienced this problem though, however i think that you are doing
something wrong when you're rendering the controls, or that you define
your properties incorrectly.
This is an example how i define a property:

<Bindable(True), Category("MinTabb"), DefaultValue(""),
Description("tb_Tree_itemtype.intTypeId will be equaled to this
integer.")> Public Property [GetWhereTypeIdEquals]() As Integer
Get
Return Me._GetWhereTypeIdEquals
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As Integer)
Me._GetWhereTypeIdEquals = Value
End Set
End Property

And later in:
Protected Overrides Sub CreateChildControls()
'i use the property (if it is set) like this:
If me.GetWhereGroupIdEquals <> 0 then '.... you get the idea ..

 

[Randy]

Rico,

I'm not even adding my own properties. I'm only trying to set defaults for
the standard properties of the webcombo control. e.g. in the constructor
I'll do something like this.

this.Width = 50;


However, when I add the control to my page, it sets the width property in
the html to 200, nullifying my constructor change.

-Randy