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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:47:02+00:00

I read about templated controls/INamingContainer but I can’t understand what problem it solves when

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I read about templated controls/INamingContainer but I can’t understand what problem it solves when making a custom control. Does it simply allow me to use ItemTemplate (like the DataGrid does)?

Reference link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/36574bf6.aspx

On this link, it says “Any control that implements this interface creates a new namespace in which all child control ID attributes are guaranteed to be unique within an entire application.”, so really, this interface is for composite controls and not custom controls which are not composite?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem it solves is that all server control ID’s have to be unique. Consider a simple composite control that adds a textbox to itself called “Textbox1”.

    If you add two of these composite controls to the page, there will be two controls called “Textbox1” on the page, which violates the uniqueness, and hence ASP.Net’s ability to manage and maintain these textboxes on the server side.

    By appending the container namespace to them, you get a unique name. In this case you’d get something like “myCompositeControl_Textbox1” and “myCompositeControl2_Textbox1”.

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