I have a web control that looks like this
public class Foo : WebControl { [Bindable(true)] [Category("Default")] [DefaultValue("")] [Localizable(true)] public string Bar { get; set; } protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter output) { output.WriteLine(Bar); } }
I want to put this webcontrol in my aspx page like so:
<cc1:Foo Bar="<%= Fa.La.La %>/otherstuff" runat="server" />
(obviously this code is simplified to show the problem)
In my Render method the variable Fa.La.La is not evaluated. It's coming in as the raw text "<%= Fa.La.La %>" How do I evaluate it?
I'm not particular how the variables are passed in. If the variables can be evaluated if they are passed in as <%# ... %>, that works fine. The point is I have some server-side variables I want evaluated before/while my Render() method is called.
The only thing I can think of is to use a regex to grab the contents of <%= ... %> and use reflection or something, but there has to be a more elegant way to do this.
This question is pretty similar to using server variables in a href <%= xx %> with runat=server, but it's not exactly the same since none of the answers there were useful.
You should have to use binding expression <%# expr %>
.
<cc1:Foo Bar='<%# String.Concat(Fa.La.La,"/otherstuff")%>' runat="server" />
and call DataBind()
method in code-behind.
public void page_load()
{
DataBind();
}