Date: 08/16/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: html, xml

A continuation of my awkward question for any C# geeks reading.

Ok, I don'think I'm gonna find a convenient way to do it the way I'd hoped, so I've started thinking about rendering the control into a Stream and XmlDocument.Load-ing that Stream into my XmlNode hierarchy.

Except I'm not getting anything out using Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter):

   public XmlDocument RenderXmlDocument()
   {
      MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
   
      this.RenderControl(new HtmlTextWriter(new StreamWriter(stream)));
   
      byte[] streamContents = stream.ToArray();
      System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
   
      foreach (byte tmp in streamContents)
         sb.Append(Convert.ToChar(tmp));
   
      HttpContext.Current.Trace.Write("EditSectionOrAsset",
         "Rendered control as \n\n[" + sb.ToString() + "]");
   
      XmlDocument control = new XmlDocument();
      control.Load(new XmlTextReader(new StreamReader(stream)));
   
      return control;
   }

and nothing is getting written to the Trace.

Am I gonna have to work out how to do this without using the control?

Any and all suggestions gratefully received. Cross-posted to owenblacker, csharp and ms_dot_net.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/33333.html