ViewCollection Class
.NET Framework 4
Represents a collection container that enables a MultiView control to maintain a list of its child controls.
Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
The ViewCollection type exposes the following members.
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Count | Gets the number of server controls in the ControlCollection object for the specified ASP.NET server control. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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IsReadOnly | Gets a value indicating whether the ControlCollection object is read-only. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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IsSynchronized | Gets a value indicating whether the ControlCollection object is synchronized. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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Item | Gets a reference to the View control at the specified index location in the ViewCollection collection. |
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Owner | Gets the ASP.NET server control to which the ControlCollection object belongs. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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SyncRoot | Gets an object that can be used to synchronize access to the collection of controls. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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Add | Adds the specified View control to the collection. (Overrides ControlCollection.Add(Control).) |
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AddAt | Adds the specified View control to the collection at the specified index location. (Overrides ControlCollection.AddAt(Int32, Control).) |
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Clear | Removes all controls from the current server control's ControlCollection object. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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Contains | Determines whether the specified server control is in the parent server control's ControlCollection object. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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CopyTo | Copies the child controls stored in the ControlCollection object to an System.Array object, beginning at the specified index location in the System.Array. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
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Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
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GetEnumerator | Retrieves an enumerator that can iterate through the ControlCollection object. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
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GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
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IndexOf | Retrieves the index of a specified Control object in the collection. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
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Remove | Removes the specified server control from the parent server control's ControlCollection object. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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RemoveAt | Removes a child control, at the specified index location, from the ControlCollection object. (Inherited from ControlCollection.) |
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ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
The ViewCollection class represents a collection container that enables a MultiView control to maintain a list of its child controls. A MultiView control can contain only View controls as child controls.
Use the Add method to add a new View control to the ViewCollection collection at the end of an ordinal index array. Use the AddAt method to add a new control at a specific index location. Use the Item indexer to get a View control from the ViewCollection collection at a specified index, using simple array notation.
The following code example demonstrates how to programmatically add View controls to a MultiView control. After each View control is created, the AddAt method is used to add the View control to the ViewCollection collection of the MultiView control at the specified index. The Item indexer is used to access the ID properties of the View controls stored in the ViewCollection collection and display them to the user.
<%@ Page Language="VB"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title>ViewCollection example</title> <script runat="server"> Sub Button1_Click(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) ' Create a MultiView control. Dim MultiView1 As New MultiView ' Create a ViewCollection for the View ' controls contained in MultiView1. Dim myViewCollection As New ViewCollection(MultiView1) ' Create a View control. Dim View1 As New View ' Use a helper function to create the view. View1 = CreateView("View1") ' Add View1 to myViewCollection at index 0. myViewCollection.AddAt(0, View1) ' Create a second View control and ' add it to myViewCollection at index 1. Dim View2 As New View View2 = CreateView("View2") myViewCollection.AddAt(1, View2) ' Create a third View control and ' add it to myViewCollection at index 0. ' Inserting View3 at index 0 ' causes View1 to move to index 1 ' and View2 to move to index 2. Dim View3 As New View View3 = CreateView("View3") myViewCollection.AddAt(0, View3) ' Show the contents of myViewCollection on the page. DisplayViewCollectionContents(myViewCollection) End Sub ' A function to programmatically create a View control. Private Function CreateView(ByVal viewId As String) As View ' Create a View control Dim myView As New View myView.ID = viewId ' Create a Panel control. Dim Panel1 As New Panel ' Set the style properties for Panel1. Panel1.Height = New Unit(150) Panel1.Width = New Unit(150) Panel1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Azure Panel1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Double ' Add Panel1 to the Controls collection ' of the View control. myView.Controls.Add(Panel1) ' Create a Label control. Dim Label1 As New Label ' Set the properties for Label1. Label1.Text = "This is " + CStr(myView.ID) ' Add Label1 to the Controls collection ' of the Panel1 control. Panel1.Controls.Add(Label1) Return myView End Function ' A sub-routine to display the contents of myViewCollection. Sub DisplayViewCollectionContents(ByVal collection As ViewCollection) ' Use the Item property to access the ID of the View ' control at the specified index in the collection. Label1.Text = "The view at index 0 is " + collection.Item(0).ID Label2.Text = "The view at index 1 is " + collection.Item(1).ID Label3.Text = "The view at index 2 is " + collection.Item(2).ID End Sub </script> </head> <body> <form id="Form1" runat="server"> <h3>ViewCollection example</h3> <asp:Button id="Button2" Text="Show ViewCollection contents" OnClick="Button1_Click" runat="Server"/> <br /><br /> <hr /> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="Server"> </asp:Label><br /><br /> <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="Server"> </asp:Label><br /><br /> <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="Server"> </asp:Label><br /><br /> </form> </body> </html>
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
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