Have you looked at DotNetNuke? It is a framework for building very data driven web sites.
BOb
>Hi, Bonnie...
>
>Follow-up question...in a nutshell, I was able to do what I needed by the following, using a simple interface to identify the custom container that I need to drop on a form at runtime:
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>System.Reflection.Assembly oDLL;
>UserControl oControl = new UserControl();
>oDLL = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom("MyExternal.DLL");
>foreach(Type o in oDLL.GetTypes())
> if(o is ICustomContainer) // simple interface
>
> oControl = (UserControl)Activator.CreateInstance(o);
>
>This works...but what I'm curious about is whether I can call CreateInstance, passing instead a string for the name of the container that I want to drop on the form.
>
>The online helps says that CreateInstance can receive a string, but I keep running into problems with the object that it returns. I need to look at this further, but was curious if you had a quick answer.
>
>It may be better if I just stick with using a simple interface anyway, but was just curious (maybe for down the road) if I can call createinstance with a string.
>
>Thanks!
>Kevin
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