Adding descended ASP.NET component to toolbox?

[Lauchlan M]

Hi.

I followed the steps suggested below . . .

Say I created my component in the namespace "cld.aspnet.com ponents" - where
(filepath) would I look for the dll to add in to the toolbox, and what would
be called?

Visual Studio.NET has too many places where this file could be - somewhere
in my INETPUB, somewhere in the visual studio cache, etc etc. If I know what
it would be called I could search for it . . .

Thanks!

Lauchlan M

Following the example at
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems...asp?print=true, I have a
datagrid descendant class that shows a JavaScript confirm dialog before
deleting a row from the grid.

My first two questions are:

(i) Currently this class is in my project namespace.

I suppose it's a good idea to have this in some more generic custom
namespace so I can use this in several ASP.NET projects.

What is the best way to take this component and do that?
You can create a new class library and then create a new component and
inherit the datagrid class. Then make your modifications as you have in

the current code.

(ii) Currently using the component involves dropping a normal datagrid on the webform and then editing the HTML view of the designer

<%@ Register tagprefix="dg" Namespace="iCAR netWebInterface "
Assembly="iCARn etWebInterface" %>

and

<asp:Datagrid . . .> </asp:datagrid> to <dg:DelDataGrid > . . .
</DelDataGrid> eg:

<dg:DelDataGr id id="DataGrid1" runat="server" CellPadding="3"
BackColor="Whit e" BorderWidth="1p x"
BorderStyle="No ne" BorderColor="#C CCCCC" AllowPaging="Tr ue"
PageSize="8" AutoGenerateCol umns="False"
Height="168px" Width="448px">
. . .
</dg:DelDataGrid> </TD>

How would I go about making this modified/descended/inherited component
available from the toolbar, so it registers itself and inserts itself into the webform appropriately?
If you create the new component and inherit the original datagrid

class as I mentioned above you will be able to add the new component to the
toolbar by right clicking on the toolbar, clicking the browse button in the window that pops up, and navigating to the compiled .dll file of the new
component.

[Lauchlan M]

> if you have a web project and you didn't mess with the path your component

will be found in the bin directory of the application under inetpub/wwwroot on your local drive. it will be the name of the application with a dll
extension if you didn't mess with the defaults

Thanks.

I found a dll with my web application name.

What I have is two namespaces - MyProject and MyCustomClasses .

What I would like to add to the toolbox is _just_ the classes/components in
MyCustomClasses .

Do I need to add my whole project dll into the toolbox to accomplish this?

I would hope not, that i could separate off the namespace containing the
descended components and just add that to the toolbox . . .

Thanks again

Lauchlan M