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How to display a user control source code on an .aspx page?

I am trying to build an aspx page that displays a user control along with the code and code behind for the user control. Is there a way to get the code from a user control page and display it?

Solution

  • You could do this:

    FileInfo myControl = new FileInfo(Server.MapPath(@"~\test.aspx.cs"));
StreamReader myControlSource = myControl.OpenText();
string myControlSourceHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(myControlSource.ReadToEnd());

    Put that in a method and then you could point it to any file to get the source code as HTML and then use CSS to style as you see fit.