>Is your user controls in a different directory then where your web site is?

No, but the website is not all one big directory, there are sub-directories. But, as far as a path goes, it seems I can use a virtual path, as Dave pointed out to me in another post, ("~/SubDir/MyControl.ascx"). I guess I'm resigned to the fact that I have to do this, I'm just not crazy about it. It seems so un-OOP-like. <g> But then, WebForms are a lot different than WinForms ... I'm still trying to get used to the paradigm shift.



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>>Hi Cathi,
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>>Any idea how bad of a performance hit that might be? Only problem is (and I haven't tried it yet), I'm guessing that Reflection won't get me the path too, will it? If I have to hard-code a virtual path, then I guess I have to.
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>>I guess now I'm just wondering if there is any other way of doing this other than using the LoadControl() method.
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>>~~Bonnie
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>>>Hi Bonnie,
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>>>If you don't want to hard-code the name of the ascx file and you don't want to use a table, how about using Reflection to get at the name of the class for your usercontrol? You will incur a performance hit but you could interogate the assembly to get the name of the class then use it to figure out the name of the ascx file.
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