Introduction:
User Controls are great in ASP.NET. They let us
divide the page into small sections. You can easily use User Controls on a
ASP.NET page by simply dragging and dropping the control from the solution
explorer. Sometimes we need to load the User Control dynamically. In this small
article we will learn how to load the User Control dynamically.
Loading User Control Dynamically:
There are no tricks involve in loading User
Control dynamically and its simple as anything else. All you have to do is to
make an instance of the User Control and add it to the Page Controls collection.
Let's look at a small example.
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private
void
LoadMyUserControl()
{
// Load the User
Controls Dynamically
MyUserControl myControl = (MyUserControl)
Page.LoadControl("MyUserControl.ascx");
Page.Controls.Add(myControl);
} |
All we are doing is we make an instance of the
User Control and simply add the control to the Page Controls collection. Just
one thing to note that since you are making it dynamically you need to load it
each time the Page_Loads. You can simply put a call to the
LoadMyUserControl method inside the
InitializeComponent() method.
You can also load the User Control in the the
panel control.
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private
void
LoadMyUserControl()
{
// Load the User
Controls Dynamically
MyUserControl myControl = (MyUserControl)
Page.LoadControl("MyUserControl.ascx");
Panel1.Controls.Add(myControl);
Panel1.DataBind();
} |
I hope you liked the article, happy coding!