asp.net-controls

To my mind the advantage of implicit localization over explicit localization is that if you have more than one property to localize for a given control, it's a more economical syntax. In the case where you just need to localize some text I use the asp:Localize control which only has a single property (Text) that renders to the UI. Is there a reason to use one over the other? Any style preference? Are there any speed differences? Implicit <asp:Localize ID="Localize1" runat="server" meta:resourcekey="Something" /> vs Explicit <asp:Localize ID="Localize1" runat="server" Text="<%$ Resources

The Label control in ASP.NET seems to render <span> tags, but is there a server control to render HTML within a <div> ? Sure, I could set display: block and it might look the same, but I'd rather not be nesting divs inside spans. Also I'd prefer not to use <%= MyVariable %> because that might not behave nicely on postbacks. Any suggestions, please? I think you need HtmlGenericControl class. It has a constructor which accepts a string variable which initializes a new instance of the HtmlGenericControl class with the specified tag: var div = new HtmlGenericControl("div"); It is also has

I have a custom ASP.NET server control CustomControl with a property attribute Path . If the Path is not explicitly specified, then I want an exception to be thrown. For example, <myControls:CustomControl Path="somedirectory/someotherdirectory/somefile.ext" runat="server" /> should compile, and <myControls:CustomControl runat="server" /> should throw an exception. I realize I can do this in the getter of the Path property, but is there some attribute that necessitates this? Update Is there any mechanism for validating the values of the property attributes other than using in the getter methods

I have multiple dropdownlist in a page and would like to disable all if user selects a checkbox which reads disable all. So far I have this code and it is not working. Any suggestions? foreach (Control c in this.Page.Controls) { if (c is DropDownList) ((DropDownList)(c)).Enabled = false; } John Sheehan Each control has child controls, so you'd need to use recursion to reach them all: protected void DisableControls(Control parent, bool State) { foreach(Control c in parent.Controls) { if (c is DropDownList) { ((DropDownList)(c)).Enabled = State; } DisableControls(c, State); } } Then call it like