LoadControl .NET 2.0 1

[RobHudson]

My problem - really annoying!!!:
UserControls. In 1.x you could create a usercontrol and give it properties. Nothing too flash yet! You could also do something like:

MyControl uc = (MyControl)this.LoadControl("VIRTUAL_PATH_OR_NAMESPACE");
uc.MyProperty = "Hello, I'm a dick :)";
MySpan.Controls.Add(uc);

Nifty! And really useful
Here comes .NET 2, all singing and all dancing - yeehah!
Can't seem to do that anymore.

The only way you can reference the UserControl is by having it in the App_Code folder. Then it can be called from somewhere else and have it's properties set. Well, sort of. When you compile you get an error saying can't use App_Code for this action. Something to do with it compiling code in App_Code differently (not that I care to be honest...).

Anyway....
Found this article discussing it:

http://forums.asp.net/785610/ShowPost.aspx.

And then came across this as well:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...perty+interface&rnum=1&hl=en#9296ed3c4ce69b0f

So, I created an Interface:

namespace x.x
{

    public interface IUserLogin
    {
        string setMe
            {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }

}

Created my usercontrol:

public partial class _UserLogin : System.Web.UI.UserControl, x.x.IUserLogin
{
    protected void Page_Load.....
    {
    }

    public void IUserLogin.setMe()
    {
    }
}

So now when I compile I get: The modifier 'public' is not valid for this item. Relating to the UserControl.

I know nothing about interfaces - any ideas? Any experience on having done this already...

Please tell me there's a dead easy way to do this, cos at the moment I'm thinking turning back to VS2003/1.1!

 

[RobHudson]

Sorted!

Need to add this to the calling page:

<%@ Reference Control="~/WebControls/WebUserControl.ascx" %>

Found the answer here:

http://www.microsoft.com/indonesia/msdn/conversionissuesasp_net.aspx

What I failed to mention was that the control was in a sub folder. Worked when it was in the root, but not when in a sub folder (after much playing about!)

Now the good old 1.1 way works

WebUserControl uc = (WebUserControl)this.LoadControl("~/WebControls/WebUserControl.ascx");
uc.Text = "Hello";
this.Controls.Add(uc);

Hope this helps someone