Custom User Control and Friendly Property Item Collection (Like ListBox and ListItems, but with List) on .ASPX

Question

I have been wondering a long time how to do a public property for a User Control that work\'s like .NET native Item\'s collection Property (for Example, ListBox and ListItem

Answer 1

You can place a list of your type in the control class and decorate with PersistenceModeAttribute.

[PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
public List ConfigItem { get; set; }

An better example:

http://am-blog.no-ip.org/BlogEngine/post/2010/04/13/ASP-NET-Custom-Control-with-PersistenceModeInnerProperty-using-Server-Controls.aspx