How to load a User Control dynamically from a dll into asp:panel

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Hi,
I have more than 3 websites. So I want to share some common user controls among these applications. For this purpose i have created a new web application having common user controls i.e login, and some other controls. Then i produce the ddl which i load into my other web sites using below code:

But i unable to load the user control from dll into panel using below code as we do by using Control c = Page.LoadContnrol("contrlname.ascx").

C#

Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(pluginPath);
Type controlType = assembly.GetType("ABCCommon.controls.LoginPanel");
object controlss = Activator.CreateInstance(controlType);      

// this section doesn't load the user control from dll into page
pnlLoginControl.Controls.Add((Control)c);

or

C#

        Assembly plugin = Assembly.LoadFrom(pluginPath);

        Type[] types = plugin.GetTypes();

        foreach (Type t in types)
        {
            if (typeof(UserControl).IsAssignableFrom(t))
            {
                UserControl control = (UserControl)Activator.CreateInstance(t);

                controls.Add(control);
            }
        }

        UserControl c = (UserControl)controls[0];

// this section doesn't load the user control to page
        this.pnlLoginControl.Controls.Add(c);

Please can anyone help?
Thanks!

Posted 26-Oct-11 0:01am

LuckiLuck

Updated 26-Oct-11 0:02am

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Amir Mahfoozi 26-Oct-11 7:16am

did you add a static refrence to your reference list? or even try to use that component staticly to test whether it works or not ?

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RaisKazi · Answer 1 · 2011-10-26T01:17:00

No you are doing it in a wrong way. If you want to develop controls which can be reusable in other Web Sites/Applications then use "Custom Controls".

Have a look at below links for more information.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893667

http://oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet/chapter/ch14.html

gan.gary · Answer 2 · 2014-02-19T22:20:00

my code below works. this method requires full-name:
Assembly.GetType(string FullName)

C#

Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load("App_Web_mywsc.ascx.cdcab7d2");

// Display all the types contained in the specified assembly. 
foreach (Type oType in assembly.GetTypes())
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(oType.FullName);
}
Type controlType = assembly.GetType("ASP.mywsc_ascx");//fullname
object controlss = Activator.CreateInstance(controlType);
// this section doesn't load the user control from dll into page
myDIV.Controls.Add((Control)controlss);

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