[Solved] UserControlName path?

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I'm trying to debug my RadGrid that is intended to use a User Controls for inserting & editing records.

Whenever I click the Add Record command button, the whole grid disappears.  I've looked at the rendered HTML and all I see is a wrapper for the grid.  Everything else disappears.

I was wondering if it was related to my User Control so I did an experiement and put a purposely invalid name for the UserControlName attribute of the EditFormSettings tag.  To my surprise the code ran without any exception being thrown.

1. Isn't there any check done in the internal code of RadGrid to confirm that it has loaded the User Control?
2. My RadGrid is in an ASCX of its own which is located in a second level folder of the website.  The ASCX for the Edit Form is located in the same directory.  What path name do I put for the UserControlName attribute?  I was thinking "~\Controls\editformUserControl.ascx".  Is that correct?

To be clearer, here is the structure of the page:

\
    wrapperPage.aspx
    \Controls
        parentUserControl.ascx
        editformUserControl.ascx

WrapperPage contains a user control named parentUserControl.ascx which in turn contains the RadGrid.  That RadGrid wants to use an edit form implemented in editformUserControl.ascx.

[Ves]

Hi Eriksson,

RadGrid will throw an exception if it tries to load a user control that does not exist. The reason for not throwing it in this case is that it does not even try to load that user control. The grid disappearing looks like it has not been provided with datasource. Do you databind the grid when editing a record? I recommend checking these help topics related to RadGrid databinding:

• Simple databinding
• Advanced databinding
• Declarative datasource

As for the web user control name -- as long as it is in the same folder with RadGrid you can use UserControlName="editformUserControl.ascx".

Greetings,
Ves
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Thank you.  I'll look into the datasource thing.

As for the user control path, are you saying that the name should be RELATIVE to the file containing the RadGrid?  Will it not understand the ASP ~ prefix?  I ask because it may happen that the RadGrid MAY NOT be in the same folder as the edit form user control.

[Ves]

Hi,

My answer was focused on the specific details you provided. RadGrid will understand UserControlName="~/Controls/editformUserControl.ascx"

Regards,
Ves
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Thanks!  Great support as always.