Comments on: Make an Autocomplete Control a Webcontrol

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:37:13 +0000

Oh boy, I’ll have to look at that one again. Been a while but I’ll check on it for you. Don’t worry about the english, you write better than 99% of the people in the US.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:09:55 +0000

Hi,

i’m trying to use your code but the webservice method is not fired, and i’m not why.

“ac” is the AutoCompleteControl class

UserControls.classAutoComplete ac = new MapaSaoPaulo.UserControls.classAutoComplete();

I add the ac in a div..
divMenu.Controls.Add(ac);

but not works.. =/

can you help-me please?

thank you and sorry by english

By: mark

mark — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:20:28 +0000

I want to say – thank you for this!

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:23 +0000

Huh, well glad I could sort of help. Sorry that the initial attempt was less than useful. Good to hear you got something working though.

By: Omar Qadan

Omar Qadan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:21:32 +0000

yes like you said i got the markup but with out input stuff,any way i did it as script control and its work fine

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:14:05 +0000

Ok after some fun searching, I finally found this example in my test project. When run (And this means the barest example that I give in this post) the mark up turns out to look like this:

The span basically being the webcontrol and the input the textbox included. (I assume you know this) The markup you posted doesn’t seem to make full sense as I think maybe something was lost in the copy, paste, and post. The < > characters will be stripped or read incorrectly unless you use &lt ; or &gt ; (minus the space between the t and the ; ) If you want, you can email me what you have to sean@byatool.com . Unfortunately, as I said, the markup has lost something in the translation.

By: Omar Qadan

Omar Qadan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:08:12 +0000

span id=”AutoCompleteTextBox1″ FirstRowSelected=”false” OnClientPopulated=”ClientPopulated” CompletionListHighlightedItemCssClass=”autocomplete_highlightedListItem”

By: Omar Qadan

Omar Qadan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:07:28 +0000

i tried this solution but i got empty page when i use it i got empty page when i view the source it reference all Ajax script correctly but the control render like this

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:43:51 +0000

I concur. I can create an AutoCompleteExtender and progmatically set it’s ID. Sean is correct in the fact that it inherits the ID property from System.Web.UI.Control.

I am using .NET 3.5 SP1.

On a side note, if you find a problem with a post, add your findings so that the author can replicate it. Leaving a negative post and telling others to look elsewhere is not helping anyone.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:31:17 +0000

@B. Rich Mister Not sure where you're getting that from. I can assure you this works as I have the code running just fine. I'm wondering if we're not talking about the same control or possibly I am using a newer version of the Ajax Toolkit? AutoCompleteExtender inherits ExtenderControl which inherits Control which exposes a public ID and can be added using the Control.Add() method.

By: B. Rich Mister

B. Rich Mister — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:54:23 +0000

Hmm. Interesting, except that the AutoCompleteExtender doesn’t expose the ID property in code, and you can’t add it to the Controls collection in a class that derives from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl.

For those of you like me who fell for this junk, steer clear. It doesn’t work and will only add to your frustration.