Override the RenderBeginTag and RenderEndTag and just don't call the base method: Public Class TestControl Inherits WebControl Protected Overrides Sub RenderContents(ByVal writer As HtmlTextWriter) writer.Write("Time Now: " & Date.Now) End Sub Public Overrides Sub RenderBeginTag(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter) 'MyBase.RenderBeginTag(writer) End Sub Public Overrides Sub RenderEndTag(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter) 'MyBase.RenderEndTag(writer) End Sub End Class Hope this helps Tom

theJazzyBrain wrote: How about the dynamic CSS emition? Could you please point me to more info about this technique? http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/LocalizationHandler.asp[^] Not exactly the same thing, but demonstrates the basic strategy. A simpler, but less elegant solution would be to just use inline CSS, added to the page at runtime as a LiteralControl, in this case you don't need custom handlers.

I see... Thank you. Jason Kataropoulos Excellence is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle

If there is an event causing the post back it is best to deal with this in that event, not the Page_Load. Then if something isnt the way you want it just exit that sub. Cleako

Because, ON UPDATE i need to do several different things on the table. some are logging things. some are denormalization for performance. some are maintenance issues... but I need then in certain order. I know, i stick them all in one trigger... But still, I was wondering if it could be done in 3 triggers Jason Kataropoulos Excellence is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle

Basically, you can only use the OutputCache directive with a content element like the web page or web user control, and at runtime the ASP.NET parser will process this directive to decide if it should initialize the element from scratch or simply get the output markup from cache. For the custom control, you cannot apply this directive and if you want to support caching for custom controls, you'll need to think of other solutions. For example, you simply use a web user control as a container for your webcontrol.

That is true, but suppose that changing the envirnment is out of the question. How would you come around such a problem? Jason Kataropoulos Excellence is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle

Well, sometimes it is worth to ask google before posting anything here :) search for "Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Web.UI.PartialCachingControl’" and first link will be this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/07/WebAppFollies/default.aspx Pilo

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Well, there was the use of that quote in the movie The Princess Bride. Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never cross a Sicilian when Death is on the line! Wallace Shawn's character. Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.

There are two things I have experienced that caused restarts with ASP.NET First one was anti-virus software accessing the web.config file, which caused the app to restart killing all sessions. Another one, All over an application of mine I built a while back I was storing information in cookies, client-side using javascript to keep state of some collapsible panel controls. Users were able to use the website but where randomly logged out, I disabled this feature and the problem went away. -- modified at 11:58 Friday 27th January, 2006

dnh wrote: I've even seen using .NET objects from PHP... sorry, but I think PHP is trash. Or better, it's doing its job (Personal Home Page), but it's NOT good for bigger projects (my own exps). For milion reasons. Ok, but you are not answering to my point. Couldn't you have a lib of functions and classes that are reusable either with PHP or ASP just the same way you do with ASP.NET? Ok they are not Class Libraries but they are still a set of reusable functions. And mind you, there are alot more out there available in ASP or PHP than in ASP.NET. dnh wrote: I enjoy ease of WebControls, XmlDocuments etc almost every day To name my favourites. I must admit that support for XML is almost a foreign concept in classic ASP. You can still use it throught XMLHTTP object etc... but trully it cannot be compared to the XML support within DOT NET. I totally agree with that. As for the web controls, I am still not very sure about it. dnh wrote: What's wrong with codebehind? (except it will slightly change with partial classes in 2.0). See, there is something wrong about it, otherwise MS wouldn't change it back to a single file in Framework 2.0. It is a good concept but I thing that the implimentation of it is not as good. It looks a bit cluttered. It just doesn't feel good to me. dnh wrote: As for one form... hmmm... I don't know... Yes, I dont know either. Why do it like that? And what if I dont want a damn form in my page? Why do I need to travel through javascript just to click on a simple link? Why do I need to write special javascript to make sure that when you press on the ENTER key the correct POSTBACK event source it triggered. And all that for what? for beeing able to, as you mentioned if HTML designer (VS.NET tool, not person) wasn't so evil, do nothing at the end... I gain nothing from all this. It only causes a problems. One would say, ok but you can dynamically create a textbox. Ok so you can do with ASP and PHP. Just do a response.write("<input type=""text"" name=""myTextBox"" value=""myValue"">>") dnh wrote: no. (for the click n' drag method of development) See, its a so much advertised feature, which is actually never used. To be honest, I have never seen anyone delivering a project to a customer by using this method of development. Never. dnh wrote: I don't consider myself "experienced web developer" aft

Hi there. I don't know about patch-enabled (aside from building a multi-dll application where the dll's are thoughtfully designed and easy to swap out) but here's a link to a CP article that describes an approach for implementing plugins: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PluginsInCSharp.asp[^]

Hi there, Your server only has the .Net Framework installed but not the Visual Studio .NET Remote Components which basically allows you to debug remotely (and you don't see the 'Debugger Users' group as well). You may need to make sure that your server is set up properly so that you can remotely debug on it. For more information, see: Setting Up Remote Debugging[^] Remote Debugging Setup[^] Also, here are some sort of things which you can check when you cannot start remote debugging: Error: Unable to Start Debugging on the Web Server[^]