Found it. c.ParseControl()

Thanks for the assistance and thanks for the link to Expresso.

You're welcome. I'm glad to know you finally solved it.

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You must read your custom grayscale format and save it in byte[] for example. Then create a new bitmap and use method SetPixel to put your byte[] in Bitmap. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.bitmap.setpixel.aspx[^]

I'm guessing you mean something like : file: 256, 0,0 ,12,25,89.. val_n.. etc...EOF (for a 16X16 image) then the easiest way (C#) is to read the values into program then create a bitmap and read the values into pixels as: Bitmap.SetPixel(X,Y, Color.FromRGB(val_n,val_n,val_n)); iterate and save bitmap done.

Interesting. Seems more complicated than something I would tackle. I would use css for my styling and allow the user to set some css properties. But that's about as far as I would go. I didn't get any requirements for the signature

Thanks. This worked great.

You can create the class instance using activator class. Check the documentation at msdn[^] Hesham A. Amin My blog

Maybe use a decision table or tree? I agree with Christian. XML would be a good tool here.

To clarify... I want to create a class that will hold setting values and I want this to be accessible/common with the webform and the usercontrol. The values would be set in the webform, and when the usercontrol is added to the webform, it will retrieve the values needed from the common settings class.

I downloaded the CSSParser and used the JLCA from VS .NET 2003 to convert the classes. The conversion had 119 errors. The most common is: The equivalent in .NET for method 'java.lang.Throwable.getMessage' may return a different value.

Use both! Make the typed Datasets the DAL and some classes the BLL. Your presentation layer then makes calls to the BLL wich in turn makes a call to the typed datasets. If you use the System.ComponentModel.DataObject and System.ComponentModel.DataObjectMethodAttribute attributes in your BLL then you can even use your classes as datasources for gridviews et al. I do it this way because the database people make me do things I don't like to do, like a switch in the database has to be a char(1) with 'Y' or 'N' in it instead of a bit field, so I use the BLL to abstract it so I can just use bools in my code. private char isActive; public bool IsActive { get { return this.isActive == 'Y' ? true : false; } set { this.isActive = value ? 'Y' : 'N'; } }

Recently I've been using typed datasets, I think they open a connection each time. In my older projects I did open a connection for each request. However, my apps are internal workflow applications though, so they are not serving 100,000 hits /sec or anything :p I put the connection string in app.config.