Question

i’m generating controls dynamically on my asp.net page by xslt transformation from an xml file. i will need to reference these controls from code behind later. i would like to add these references to the list/hashtable/whatever during creation (in xslt file i suppose) so that i could reach them later and i have no idea how to do this. i will be absolutely grateful for any suggestions, agnieszka

Answer 1

Once you have transformed your XML using XSLT, you could pass the output to the ASP.Net ParseControl method and it will return your controls ready to use. For example this code will place two buttons on the page:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {     // Fetch your XML here and transform it.  This string represents     // the transformed output     string content = @'         <asp:Button runat=''server'' Text=''Hello'' />         <asp:Button runat=''server'' Text=''World'' />';      var controls = ParseControl(content);      foreach (var control in controls)     {         // Wire up events, change settings etc here     }      // placeHolder is simply an ASP.Net PlaceHolder control on the page     // where I would like the controls to end up     placeHolder.Controls.Add(controls); }