Add controls dynamically

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I have a requirement to add a panel containing a user control (textbox) + 2 Gridviews with their own item templates + other validations operating on these controls, on a Web-Form dynamically resulting from a button click. So every time a user clicks a button "Add Panel", a new panel would be generated with the above controls.

I am trying the route of Data Lists and repeaters but binding the data to the above controls is becoming a challenge. I would like to investigate other frontiers to achieve this before going forward.

Any help, links, suggestions or pointers would be appreciated?

Thanks,
Vaibhav.

Posted 9-May-15 10:36am

CodeforFood19

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ZurdoDev 9-May-15 23:47pm

That sounds complicated. You'll need to create the controls in the page's OnInit event. What else are you having trouble with?

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2015-05-10T06:17:00

Solution 1

Start here:
How to: Add Controls to an ASP.NET Web Page Programmatically[^]
HOW TO: Dynamically Create Controls in ASP.NET by Using Visual C# .NET [^]
Adding ASP.NET Controls Programmatically[^]

When you get stuck, come back here and ask detailed question.

Posted 10-May-15 6:17am

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CodeforFood19 10-May-15 13:09pm

I know how to create a control dynamically. But here the case is to generate the complete panel with these web controls dynamically. A repeater/datalist seems like a viable solution, but the issue comes when I try to bind the data to the row and the controls residing in it. Additionally I have noticed the individual validations working for these controls fire in conjunction. Ideally they should fire once for the row not affecting or triggering the validations in the other rows.

This is turning out to be more complicated than I thought. Still Stuck! More ideas please.

Maciej Los 10-May-15 13:13pm

Nothing seems to be complicated. You didn't provide information where you get stuck and what code you use. How can i help you?

CodeforFood19 10-May-15 16:09pm

Sorry Maciej Los, am working on a secured VPN environment; cant copy paste the code. TO create a dummy code snippet is an add on work. I was hoping some one would point out if I missed something obvious from a design consideration. Anyways, some how I have a reusable User Control implementation, which I can factor to meet my requirements. I am gonna take a shot at that.

Maciej Los 10-May-15 16:24pm

You get me wrong. You should post only this piece of code which is related to your issue... We're not interested of rest of it.