Custom elements in ASP.NET with custom child-elements

Question

I know that it is possible to define custom tags in ASP.NET with User Controls. But as far as I know you can only add attributes to these controls. I would like to be able to em

Answer 1

It is certainly possible. For your example the classes would look like:

[ParseChildren(true)]
class MyGraph : WebControl {
    List _colors = new List();
    [PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
    public List Colors {
        get { return _colors; }
    }
}

class Color {
    public string Value { get; set; }
}

And the actual markup would be: