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Visual Studio Intellisense not picking up my WebControls

Hi,

In the current program that Im writing I have several custom web controls.

An example of one of these webcontrols would be the pixeloption control. See the attached code snippit.

The VS intellisense works for the "<pixel:pixeloptiondialog runat="server" id="ppoOptions" autohide="true" >" part perfectly. When I hit "Ctrl + Space" I get a droplist of properties that i can set. However the intellisence does not work for my child controls. So when I hit "Ctrl + Space" I get nothing.

Has anyone any idea how I could get this to work?

Paul

<pixel:pixeloptiondialog runat="server" id="ppoOptions" autohide="true" >
    <Options>
        <pixel:pixeloption function="Add"  label="Add Sub" onclientclick="AddDirectory" />
        <pixel:pixeloption function="Edit" label="Rename" onclientclick="RenameDirectory"/>
        <pixel:pixeloption function="Delete" onitemclicked="DeleteDirectory" />
    </Options>
</pixel:pixeloptiondialog>

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Bob Learned

I don't quite understand your description. Are you saying the PixelOptionDialog has child controls defined?

adavir

ASKER

Just to close this Question, I figured this one out.

I knew that the pixeloptiondialog class had to have the following attributes defined...

[PersistChildren(false),
ParseChildren(true),
ToolboxData("<{0}:PixelButtonList runat=\"server\"></{0}:PixelButtonList>")]
public class PixelButtonList : WebControl, INamingContainer

but I didnt know that for each child item that you want intellisence to detect you need to have its Persistence mode defined. My Buttons collection is now defined as follows...

[Themeable(false)]
[DefaultValue("")]
[PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)] <-- This is the key
[Category("Behavior")]
[Description("WebControl_CommandName")]
public PixelButtonCollection Options
{
get
{
return _Options;
}
set
{
_Options = value;
}
}

It works a dream! Thanks for your help

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adavir

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There is plenty of information in the question, there is no shame in not knowing the answer.

Sorry I didnt respond to your initial comment, i figured you couldnt help me as you asked...

"Are you saying the PixelOptionDialog has child controls defined?" of course it does, look at the Code Snippit. You can see that I have a PixelOption collection. The key to answering the question was reading the line "the intellisence does not work for my child controls."

thanks for your help