ASP.NET Custom Controls - Composites

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Summary

Hi All,
OK, further into my adventures with custom controls...

In summary, here is that I have learned of three main "classes" of cus

Answer 1

You might be able to make use of this technique to make design-time easier:

http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/archive/2007/10/19/Render-User-Control-as-String-Template.aspx

Basically you create an instance of a user control at runtime using the LoadControl method, then hand it a statebag of some kind, then attach it to the control tree. So your composite control would actually function like more of a controller, and the .ascx file would be like a view.

This would save you the trouble of having to instantiate the entire control tree and style the control in C#!