Need help w/ Custom Filter

[Joshua]

I'm using the RadGrid in DNN and everything works great.

However, I'm trying to implement a custom filter.  Here's what I've got:

The header of my .ascx (Notice the "Register" directive):

	<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="admin.ascx.cs" Inherits="DesertedRoadStudios.Modules.DiscipleHatTournament.admin" %>
	<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>
	<%@ Register TagPrefix="custom" Namespace="DesertedRoadStudios.Controls" %>

A few lines down, I have a RadGrid control with the registered control as one of my columns:

	<custom:GenderCustomFilter UniqueName="gender" DataField="gender" HeaderText="Gender" />

In the code-behind:

	namespace DesertedRoadStudios.Controls
	{
	public class GenderCustomFilter : GridBoundColumn
	{
	//RadGrid calls this method when it initializes the controls inside the filtering item cells
	protected override void SetupFilterControls(TableCell cell)
	{
	base.SetupFilterControls(cell);
	cell.Controls.RemoveAt(0);
	DropDownList list = new DropDownList();
	list.ID = "list" + this.DataField;
	list.AutoPostBack = true;
	list.SelectedIndexChanged += new EventHandler(list_SelectedIndexChanged);
	list.Items.Add("Male");
	list.Items.Add("Female");
	cell.Controls.AddAt(0, list);
	cell.Controls.RemoveAt(1);
	}
	void list_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
	{
	GridFilteringItem filterItem = (sender as DropDownList).NamingContainer as GridFilteringItem;
	filterItem.FireCommandEvent("Filter", new Pair("Contains", this.UniqueName));
	}
	//RadGrid calls this method when the value should be set to the filtering input control(s)
	protected override void SetCurrentFilterValueToControl(TableCell cell)
	{
	base.SetCurrentFilterValueToControl(cell);
	DropDownList list = (DropDownList)cell.Controls[0];
	if (this.CurrentFilterValue != string.Empty)
	{
	list.SelectedValue = this.CurrentFilterValue;
	}
	}
	//RadGrid calls this method to extract the filtering value from the filtering input control(s)
	protected override string GetCurrentFilterValueFromControl(TableCell cell)
	{
	DropDownList list = (DropDownList)cell.Controls[0];
	return list.SelectedValue;
	}
	protected override string GetFilterDataField()
	{
	return this.DataField;
	}
	}
	}

Please notice a few things...

The .ascx inherits "DesertedRoadStudios.Modules.DiscipleHatTournament.admin" and the in the code-behind the public partial class "DesertedRoadStudios.Modules.DiscpleHatTournament.admin" inherits PortalModuleBase (what its suppose to inherit for DNN).

However, at the END of the code-behind, I create a new namespace "DesertedRoadStudios.Controls" in which I place the custom filter "GenderCustomFilter" that inherits the GridBoundColumn.

I thought this would be okay, but perhaps, I'm not setting up the "Register" directive correctly. Nonetheless, the control "<custom:GenderCustomFilter />" cannot be located. How do I do this correctly without having to compile classes and install them into the DNN BIN folder?

Thanks,
Joshua

[Joshua]

nevermind. got it.