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Use an usercontrol in another application

I'm wild about usercontrols, aka ascx'es. Very very usefull. But they do have one drawback : you cannot use a usercontrol in another application. Asp.net will tell you (at runtime) “this cannot be allowed”. Because it contains markup ? Pitty.

Peter

Published Jun 02 2004, 10:55 AM by pvanooijen

Comments

Scott Galloway said:

I came across a utility (on Codeproject I think) a while ago that compiled UserControls to Server Controls, take a look here: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ascxparser.asp

# June 2, 2004 7:18 AM

Brian Beatty said:

I was on a project that used user controls across web applications. It took a little work, with Virtual Directories and fun with ~\ and references the other projects.

# June 2, 2004 6:36 PM

Peter van Ooijen said:

Several of my web-apps merged into one big system. What I wanted to do is have a common page header, with the version # and some basic links. After parsing it into a custom control it would become complicated to update it. And i can't make life to hard on the sa.
What I do now is just generate the html myself in the render of my base form. Works, but is not very visual.

# June 3, 2004 2:08 AM

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