{"id":111,"date":"2007-10-16T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wdev-blog.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/attributes-to-consider-applying-when-writing-a-custom-control\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:44:00","slug":"attributes-to-consider-applying-when-writing-a-custom-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/panahy.nl\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/attributes-to-consider-applying-when-writing-a-custom-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Attributes to consider applying when writing a custom control"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The original author published<\/a> this : <\/span>Eilon Lipton’s Blog<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Almost every custom control has at least one additional public property, and that public property as well as the control itself should probably have at least a few attributes applied to them. Attributes tell the designer host (Visual Studio) or the parser (ASP.NET) interesting things about your control that might not be evident from just its name and its type. Launch any decent class browser tool and you’ll see that every control that shipped in ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX has several attributes on it as well as their properties and events.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

By applying the proper set of attributes you can significantly increase the usefulness of your control in several ways. For example, the DescriptionAttribute provides helpful text to the person designing the page. The ValidationPropertyAttribute is required when the person designing the page wants to validate the value of your control. Following is a list of the most useful and important attributes you can apply to your control and its properties and events.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Control attributes:<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n