Re: Need to show a list of controls on the page

Hello Lloyd,

Thank you for the tip. Using a collection to databind is a good idea.

Meanwhile I've re-invented the wheel... I created a asp.net control to hold my template, and then added a number of these controls to a panel.

Guess using a repeated is much easier! I will just check if I should trash my code :)

Thanks
Cyril Gupta

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"Cyril Gupta | सिरिल गुप्ता" <cyrilgupta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:864443B3-4B57-452E-A575-DD195AE1A946@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I have an interesting problem.

I wish to show a set of controls on a form repeatedly. Sort of like an ASP.Net repeated, but without any data binding (I want to be able to put in the data myself.

Basically, I am making a website which takes an RSS feed, and shows a list of posts in the feed. Like Google reader. I want to to use ASP.Net Ajax controls in the content, so I can't make a loop and spew pure HTML. I need to use the actual controls, with the events and everything, and I don't want to put in 50 controls on the form.

Is there any way to put all those controls on the form through code, automatically?

Thank for any leads/ideas that you can give me.

Regards
Cyril

Use a repeater. Within the repeater you will define the set of controls for each post. You then create a collection of posts from the RSS feed and databind that collection to the repeater. You can use the <%# Eval("Name") %> format in the controls within the repeater but I find that handling the ItemDataBound event will allow more flexibilty.

There is a starter kit which has a module for RSS feeds http://www.codeplex.com/ASPNETPortal which might get you started.

Hope this helps
LLoyd SHeen

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