Thanks, Dave. I discovered the LoadControl() method after I posted my original question. Is there *any* other way of doing this? I don't really like having to have the path and file name hardcoded like this.

I've wondered if maybe I should be using Custom WebControls instead of UserControls, but from what I understand, there's no design surface for those. Is that correct? (I just started looking at that now).

~~Bonnie


>>It doesn't show up on the page. If I just add a plain old TextBox instead of a UserControl, it works fine.
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>>Any ideas what I might be missing?
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>Here is some code from the IBuySpy sample application for dynamically loading UserControls onto a web page. This is a great sample app for learning how to dynamically load usercontrols.
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>LeftPane.Controls.Add(Page.LoadControl("~/DesktopModules/SignIn.ascx"));
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>You should be putting this into the Page_Init event handler, not the Page_Load event handler because of the way that the events fire.
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>You can debug your aspx pages by adding trace=true at the top and it will show you all the control hierarchy at runtime on your page. Using trace.write will output debug statements at the bottom of the page.