Building a custom table control

[I am Sam]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to Server control development and I need some serious help with
something. I want to build a control that will allow the developer using the
control to define columns so I am building a composit control and inheriting
from the Table web control. My problem is how do I set up the control so
that columns can be set at design time much like
<asp:Table...>
<asp:TableRow ...>
<asp:TableCell...></asp:TableCell>
<asp:TableCell...></asp:TableCell>
</asp:TableRow>
</asp:Table>

I need to set it up so that the site developer can impliment a new table
cell in design time. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thank you

[Martin]

Hi Sam,

What you probably need to do is define two public properties

private int _numberOfCells
int numberOfCells
{
get{...;}
set {...;}
}
private int _numberOfRows
int numberOfRows
{
get{...;}
set {...;}
}

then you need to set these properties when you instantiate the server
controls either in the html mark up or programatically.

then you can just write a for loop (probabally a nested one)
and for each iteration write out a new cell (for a row or a column.)

as a server controls has no design time HTML interface like a user control
you will have to produce the output programatically.

HTH

cheers

martin.



"I am Sam" <IamSam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am new to Server control development and I need some serious help with
> something. I want to build a control that will allow the developer using
> the
> control to define columns so I am building a composit control and
> inheriting
> from the Table web control. My problem is how do I set up the control so
> that columns can be set at design time much like
> <asp:Table...>
> <asp:TableRow ...>
> <asp:TableCell...></asp:TableCell>
> <asp:TableCell...></asp:TableCell>
> </asp:TableRow>
> </asp:Table>
>
> I need to set it up so that the site developer can impliment a new table
> cell in design time. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
>
> Thank you