Accessing Property Value of a Custom Control by another Custom Control in Design-time

Greetings - I was referred here by MSDN forums hope this is the right place -  

I have a custom control (:WebControl) that renders web.sitemap in a specific way. While it runs error free and produces the expected result, at Design-Time it complains

Error Creating Control - MyControl  The provider 'AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider' specified for the defaultProvider does not exist in the providers collection.

I have discovered that the error is cause by this line of code:

string div = string.Format("<div class='{0}' id='{1}'>{2}</div>", this.CssClass, this.ID.ToString(), EnumerateNodesRecursive(SiteMap.RootNode, level));

or more specifically, by the reference to SiteMap.RootNode - I am not clear what is missing thoough because I have configured the SiteMapProvider in web.config as this:

<siteMap>
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider" 
             type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 
             siteMapFile="web.sitemap" 
             securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/>
      </providers>
    </s

Dino Esposito

MSDN Magazine December 2003

I have created a server control consisting of a TextArea and a div under it.  My goal is to create my own asp:TextArea type control.  the div is for a Character count of the text area and seems to work ok but i added a CharacterCountVisible property to the control that is always returning true.  See Proptery definition below

<Bindable(False), Category("Appearance"), DefaultValue("True"), Localizable(True)> Property CharacterCountVisible() As Boolean
    Get
        Return _CountBoxVisible
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
        _CountBoxVisible = value
    End Set
End Property

Note the _CountBoxVisible variable is define inside the class as :

Dim _CountBoxVisible as Boolean = True

What I am trying to do is give the user/coder the option to show/utilize the char count feature.  Can make it disappear with textarea1.CharacterCountVisible = False but setting it to true will not make it display.

What am i missing

Thanks

Hi

I have created a custom control from scratch and it works fine as in you can build the project that uses it and it works fine at runtime. Problem is when you go to design view the control shows an error in the place of where the control should be rendered.

Error: '<SomeValue>' Could not be set to '<SomeProperty>'

This shows up on all my custom set properties. These properties are created as basic as possible. I can give the properties values in Source view and run the app just fine. I can even add a Onclick event. If I don't set any custom properties the control will render fine in Design view. It's only when I set a value to a custom property.

Property Code Example:

public string Text
        {
            get
            {
                string ret = "";
                object obj = ViewState["Text"];
                if (obj != null)
                {
                    ret = obj.ToString();
                }
                return ret;
            }
            set
            {
                ViewState["Text"] = value;
            }
        }

I've even removed the Category and Description tags with no difference.

I don't know if what I said makes sens, but I hope it

I make a custome control by taking a TextBox and A Regular Expression Validator.When i Use this on a .aspx page it works fine.But when i use this on .ascx page and dynamically load user control on a place holder in .aspx page it through an Error

Unable to find control id '_ctl0:txtEmail' referenced by the 'ControlToValidate' property of '_ctl0:txtEmailRequired'

My Custome control Code is this"--