Can I dynamically set server control values in-line?

[Steve Franks]

In ASP.NET 2.0 you can now apparently do this:
<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser" IE:text="any IE browser"
IE5:text="the IE 5 browser" PIE:text="the Pocket PC browser" />

Now the tokens "IE5" and "PIE" are coming from the updated browser
capabilities component.

I'd like to do the same thing, but create my own tokens that have nothing to
do with the browser capabilities component because I love the convenience
this offers.

For example I'd like to do this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="my val" Foo:text="val when Foo"
Bar:text="value when bar" />

or even this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser"
Condition==True:text="condition is true" Condition==False:text="condition
is false" />

So in summary, is this possible out of the box in asp.net 2.0? If not, is
it possible to extend the asp:label (or other such controls) somehow to
support this conditional assignment of a propery?

Obviously the updated browser capabilities control does this, so it must be
possible somehow. I guess the question is whether this support is hard coded
into the asp.net framework specific to the browser control, or whether this
is an open architecture that somehow I can tap into to do the same thing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Steve

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Don't know if its there in 2.0 but you could (I would assume) simply create a
series of custom controls inheriting from the base ones, that adds this
parameter and then you do a If/Switch check in the custom control.

--
Curt Christianson
site: http://www.darkfalz.com
blog: http://blog.darkfalz.com

"Steve Franks" wrote:

In ASP.NET 2.0 you can now apparently do this:
<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser" IE:text="any IE browser"
IE5:text="the IE 5 browser" PIE:text="the Pocket PC browser" />

Now the tokens "IE5" and "PIE" are coming from the updated browser
capabilities component.

I'd like to do the same thing, but create my own tokens that have nothing to
do with the browser capabilities component because I love the convenience
this offers.

For example I'd like to do this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="my val" Foo:text="val when Foo"
Bar:text="value when bar" />

or even this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser"
Condition==True:text="condition is true" Condition==False:text="condition
is false" />

So in summary, is this possible out of the box in asp.net 2.0? If not, is
it possible to extend the asp:label (or other such controls) somehow to
support this conditional assignment of a propery?

Obviously the updated browser capabilities control does this, so it must be
possible somehow. I guess the question is whether this support is hard coded
into the asp.net framework specific to the browser control, or whether this
is an open architecture that somehow I can tap into to do the same thing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Steve

[Steve Franks]

The main advantage I am looking to gain from this is the abilty to specify
different values within the server tag itself. If I created a custom control
that did the if/switch type of logic there, wouldn't that basically require
me to hard code the values in there?

Really what I am looking for is the ability to specify different values
within the server control itself (i.e. something:text="TEXT 1"
somethingElse:text="ALTERNATE TEXT" and then let the control pick which one
to use, using business logic. Is that approach possible with a custom
control?

Thanks,

Steve

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_at_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
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Don't know if its there in 2.0 but you could (I would assume) simply
create a
series of custom controls inheriting from the base ones, that adds this
parameter and then you do a If/Switch check in the custom control.

--
Curt Christianson
site: http://www.darkfalz.com
blog: http://blog.darkfalz.com

"Steve Franks" wrote:

In ASP.NET 2.0 you can now apparently do this:
<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser" IE:text="any IE browser"
IE5:text="the IE 5 browser" PIE:text="the Pocket PC browser" />

Now the tokens "IE5" and "PIE" are coming from the updated browser
capabilities component.

I'd like to do the same thing, but create my own tokens that have nothing
to
do with the browser capabilities component because I love the convenience
this offers.

For example I'd like to do this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="my val" Foo:text="val when Foo"
Bar:text="value when bar" />

or even this:

<asp:label runat="server" text="some browser"
Condition==True:text="condition is true"
Condition==False:text="condition
is false" />

So in summary, is this possible out of the box in asp.net 2.0? If not,
is
it possible to extend the asp:label (or other such controls) somehow to
support this conditional assignment of a propery?

Obviously the updated browser capabilities control does this, so it must
be
possible somehow. I guess the question is whether this support is hard
coded
into the asp.net framework specific to the browser control, or whether
this
is an open architecture that somehow I can tap into to do the same thing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Steve