Question

Basically I want to create a user control in code behind, DataBind() it and then insert the control into current page

I’m currently trying this:

var comment = new IncidentHistoryGroupComment(); comment.LoadControl('~/Controls/IncidentHistoryGroupComment.ascx'); comment.LoadTemplate('~/Controls/IncidentHistoryGroupComment.ascx'); comment.InitializeAsUserControl(this); comment.AttachmentActions = group.HastAttachmentActions ? group.AttachmentActions : null; comment.Comment = group.Comment; comment.NextStep = group.NextStep; comment.IsInitiationStep = group.InitializationEntry != null; comment.DataBind(); 

But still all controls inside it are null. For example i have a pane with id pnlComments and when I try to access it in IncidentHistoryGroupComment.DataBind() method I get null. I also checked Controls property to see if there is something there but Controls.Count == 0

So the question is how to correctly initialize a user control from code behind so that all controls would be assigned to their instances in IncidentHistoryGroupComment.designer.cs so I could access them easily.

Answer 1

Should be something like this:

 var comment = (IncidentHistoryGroupComment)Page.LoadControl('~/Controls/IncidentHistoryGroupComment.ascx'); 

Then you just insert into the control tree