Hello Everyone ,
I 've built a custom server control in ASP.NET 1.1 : a simple TreeView. I'm using this treeview in an aspx page like this:
<cc1:tree id="id1" text="text1">
   <cc1:tree id="id2" text="text2">
      <cc1:tree id="id3" text="text3">
         <asp:textbox id="tb1" text="txt"/>
      </cc1:tree>
   </cc1:tree>
</cc1:tree>

It's a recursive control. I want to be able to add any control inside (a native ASP.NET control as TextBox or another server control That I've built to)

To be able to parse sub xml tags, I 've create a specific Builder inheriting from ControlBuilder
I Don't want to make a big switch case to tell to my builder : "if tag contains "textbox" word return System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox and so on...
Is it possible in code behind to load controls from their tag name ?
Is it possible to access to registred assemblies of the page ?
I'm asking theses questions because I want to make a call like this : GetType (    assembly_name + xm_ltag_name )...

Thanks in advance

bben

Hi,
Since you're writing your own ControlBuilder, why not just call base.GetChildControlType(), where tagName is the tag's name, such as "asp:TextBox" and the attributes is a dictionary of the attributes on the tag. I do not recommend manually calling Type.GetType() because you won't be able to map all the tags to appropriate namespaces, etc. and you'll definitely fail if the tag is a UserControl.

Though, even aside from all this, why do you need to write your own ControlBuilder? ASP.net already knows how to add child controls to a parent control. As long as you have ParseChildren(false) on your control, the right thing should happen without the need for a ControlBuilder.

Thanks,
Eilon