Custom Control Designers : Design-time HTML
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The Class
The Class

The designer class, is not part of the Control or Webcontrol classes and therefore is slightly different in terms of implementation.

The class that contains the functionality is the System.Web.UI.Design.ControlDesigner class which provides several functions, which aid in providing the design-time HTML.

If you are using VS.NET, remember to add a reference to System.Design.dll so that you can see this class (as it is not contained within System.Web.dll).

Current Code

The code that will be used for the rest of this article, will be the Multi-Highlighter custom control and we will be improving it upon.

Public Class DesignerSample
Inherits System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
Implements IPostBackEventHandler

Private _Text() As String = {""}

<Category("Misc"), _
Description("Specifies the text to be displayed."), _
Browsable(
True)> _
Public Property Text() As String()
Get
Return
_Text
End Get
Set(ByVal Value() As String)
_Text = Value
End Set
End Property

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal output As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
Dim i
output.AddAttribute("border", "1")
output.AddStyleAttribute("cursor", "hand")
output.AddStyleAttribute("border-width", "1")
output.AddStyleAttribute("border-color", "#000000")
output.RenderBeginTag("table")
For i = 0 To Text.GetUpperBound(0)
output.AddAttribute("onClick", Page.GetPostBackEventReference(
Me, i))
If ViewState(ID & i) = 1 Then
output.AddAttribute("bgcolor", "#85FF72")
Else
output.AddAttribute("bgcolor", "#FFFFFF")
End If
output.RenderBeginTag("tr")
output.RenderBeginTag("td")
output.AddAttribute("face", "Arial")
output.AddAttribute("size", "2")
output.RenderBeginTag("font")
output.Write(Text(i))
output.RenderEndTag()
output.RenderEndTag()
output.RenderEndTag()
Next
output.RenderEndTag()
End Sub

Public Sub PostBackEvent(ByVal eventargs As String) Implements IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent
If ViewState(ID & eventargs) = 1 Then
ViewState(ID & eventargs) = 0
Else
ViewState(ID & eventargs) = 1
End If
End Sub
End
Class

You may see in the code that the Text field is now exposed as a property with design-time attributes and _Text is initialized.


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