Easy Tips To Modify Your ASP.NET Controls at Runtime

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it’s a way to turn all instances of a type into another type at compile time. In human language it means that it can turn all e.g. System.Web.UI.WebControls.Textbox (in our example ) instances in the entire website into another control.That is so cool that I had to do a little example. I’ve created a very simple control that inherits from a TextBox and overrides the Text property so that it HTML encodes the text. I placed it in the App_Code folder and called it SafeTextBox.

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
///
/// Summary description for SafeTextBox
///
public class SafeTextBox : System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
{
    public override string Text
    {
        get
        {
            return base.Text;
        }
        set
        {
            base.Text = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(value);
        }
    }
}

using System;

using System.Data;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

///

/// Summary description for SafeTextBox

///

public class SafeTextBox : System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox

{

public override string Text

{

get

{

return base.Text;

}

set

{

base.Text = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(value);

}

Then I needed to hook the tag mapping up in the web.config to convert all the text boxes into SafeTextBox instances. It simply converts all TextBox instances on the entire site. Here is what’s needed in the web.config:

<pages> <tagMapping> <add tagType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox" mappedTagType="SafeTextBox"/> </tagMapping> </pages>

1	<pages> <tagMapping> <add tagType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox" mappedTagType="SafeTextBox"/> </tagMapping> </pages>

After we add the following line of code in the web.config file all the TextBox control will be mapped to the TextBox.

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