Rendering a Custom ASP.NET Control when Disabled by Parent Container
So I was performing some maintenance work on some webform stuff in an application and ran into a problem where an existing custom control, which I have the source for so I can fix it (yay!), wasn’t properly disabling itself when it was in a container that became disabled. The way it works, it overrides the rendering process and spits out lots of HTML and javascript (eww!) but for the important things for this rendering, it looks at a custom “ReadOnly” property on the control to enable/disable the appropriate things. So essentially the control is always enabled except when that flag is set to false – a bad idea!