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• # re: ASP.NET 2.0 Generic Control Tag Syntax

  very good information ....
  
  please give the url links to learn more about generic control syntax, programming

  Left by dotnerlover at 8/12/2005 2:36 AM
• # re: ASP.NET 2.0 Generic Control Tag Syntax

  What if someTextProperty is also generic with multiple types and subtypes?

  Left by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) at 8/19/2004 9:22 PM
• # re: ASP.NET 2.0 Generic Control Tag Syntax

  Well in that case, it shouldn't be an attribute right? Attributes are reserved for "simpler" values. More complex values need to be represented as elements. So you would just use the same pattern again... something like:
  
  <myNs:MyGenericControl asp:genericParameters="TypeName1, TypeName2+SubTypeName">
  <myNs:SomeDictionaryLikeProperty>
  <collectionNs:Dictionary asp:genericParameters="int, string">
  <collectionNs:Add key="1" value="One"/>
  <collectionNs:Add key="2" value="Two"/>
  </collectionNs:Dictionary>
  </myNs:SomeDictionaryLikeProperty>
  </myNs:MyGenericControl>
  
  I guess it basically boils down to following the same kinds of rules that XAML is pioneering. Although, to the best of my knowledge, they have yet to address generics syntax either. There's a problem with this syntax though: the ASP.NET parsing engine would have to be extended to support more advanced parsing for scenarios this. Control writers shouldn't have to implement IParserAccessor to parse their innards in scenarios like this, else there's no point in defining a standard way to handle the syntax.

  Left by Drew Marsh at 8/20/2004 9:53 AM