c# control names

Question

Is there a way to control how .Net sets the Name and ID property of my controls? I have some radio buttons for which I need the name to be the same.

Answer 1

Yes.

Declare a descendant class from, say, a textbox, which overrides the UniqueID and ClientID properties. Then, use (in this example) MyControls.Textbox instead of the built-in textbox.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;


    namespace MyControls
    {
        public class Textbox : System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
        {
            public override string ClientID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }

            }

            public override string UniqueID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }
            }

        }

        public class Button : System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button
        {

            public override string ClientID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }

            }

            public override string UniqueID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }
            }
        }
    }

Note that you'll need to register your controls in web.config:

Then you can reference them in your markup: