exposing NameValueCollection Property through ASPX page ? (string representation of its values)

[sonic]

Hi,

Is there a signature that would allow me to set values for such
properties as NameValueCollection or StringList within ASPX xml
definition ?

example:

myControl has a Values property of type NameValueCollection.
class myControl {
public NameValueCollection Values {...}
}

could i do something like this ?
--main.aspx--
<ctrl:myControl id="..." Values="Name1,Val1--Name2,Val2--" ..>
etc.

I attempt some guess signature that may work, but i get following
errror:
Cannot create an object of type
'System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollectio n' from its string
representation 'H,S' for the 'Values' property.

which leads me to believe that it may be possible to represet this
property as string.

[John Saunders]

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Hi,

Is there a signature that would allow me to set values for such
properties as NameValueCollection or StringList within ASPX xml
definition ?

example:

myControl has a Values property of type NameValueCollection.
class myControl {
public NameValueCollection Values {...}
}

could i do something like this ?
--main.aspx--
<ctrl:myControl id="..." Values="Name1,Val1--Name2,Val2--" ..>
etc.

I attempt some guess signature that may work, but i get following
errror:
Cannot create an object of type
'System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollectio n' from its string
representation 'H,S' for the 'Values' property.

which leads me to believe that it may be possible to represet this
property as string.

You'll need a custom type converter which can convert to and from a string
representation. Look up "type converter" on MSDN.

John Saunders