Question

How dan I dynamically create some public properties on a custom webcontrol.

For example, web control has 5 TextBox controls. I need a public property for each TextBox control to be able to set a specific property of the TextBox control.

I want to be able to loop the controls in the webcontrol and create a public property for each TextBox control.

any ideas?

Answer 1

Edited:

If the child-controls are present at Design-Time then you need to explain why you want to dynamically add properties to access the control members–unless there is a good reason it just sounds like a poor design.

Here’s my suggestion:

• Leave your controls as Friend or Private — don’t expose them directly (it leads to tight-coupling and gets nasty over time).

• Expose a new public property that gets/sets the corresponding property on 1x of your controls; so if you want to set .Text on 5x TextBoxes you’ll have 5x properties.

• Be done with it.

If you’re trying to be clever by dynamically adding them, then it’s a good intention that will lead to poor results. Just remember: KISS (Keep it simple, stupid!).