>>>When I drag this control onto a web form, all I get is a simple block that looks like a button control and given the label of its base... ie: MyTextbox1
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>>>How do I get .net to show me the visual designer of the class as I have it on my webform. I can't even move it to an absolute position on the form, it always appears relative to another control.
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>>>At run-time, the proper control shows and functions as I would otherwise expect.
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>>>Thanks
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>>For absolute position you should be in absolute positioning (default is flow layout-which is the recommended one, formerly it was absolute as I remember).
>>Cetin
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>Don,
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>The answer to your first question is that this is the nature of a WebUserControl (ascx). If you want to see the fully rendered control in the designer, you must create a CustomControl. Unfortunately, there is no designer for a custom control so it has to be done purely in code.
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>This may be a daunting task if you have recently arrived from the VFP world. It may be best to stick with the WebUserControl until you have absorbed a good amount of the inner workings of ASP.NET.


ok.. So, now I go to Add Item, then pick "Web Custom Control" from the templates... ex: MyLabel and it comes back with MyLabel.cs ... I take the defaults, and change the default derivation of web controls and change to that of a label, save and compile (strip out the get/set declaration of text since that is a default of the label control anyhow). All ok. Now, I drag/drop that onto a web form and I get

http://localhost/mytest/mylabel.cs

and not a label control itself... Am I missing something stupid??