AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hi!

I want to store a .ascx file into the database (under productdescription) and then load it into another .ascx file using a placeholder and the LoadControl.
My problem is that I dont know how to get LoadControl to accept a string instead of a file.

If I use "ProductDescription.ascx" i can fetch the data from the correct file using "<asp:Literal ID="phCaption" runat="server" Text="Description" EnableViewState="false"></asp:Literal>", but that will not work for me cause I need the text from the database to be rendered together with the orginal .ascx page and not just inserted as regular text.

Any ideeas?

Best regards, Thomas

What about loading the string data from db then creating a temporary control file in conlib from the loaded data. When you have the file then you can load the user control using that temporary file.

How dynamic is the loaded control?
Could the task be achieved using a common set of controls with public properties and methods and just abstract the name and properties of the control in the db?
(something like table.column="controlname,property=value, property2=value2, ..." parsed to dynamicControl[] and loaded from there)
You should be able to push markup directly to the page using Response.Write().
There are also techiques for executing code stored as text using Reflection:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/evalcscode.aspx.
The temporary control file strikes me as messy. It will never be cached. When do you clean it up?

Nice tip nickc!

Serialize the control first and then store it in the database.

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012302-1.shtml