How to dynamically add user controls within a user control.

Question

I want to create a user control that will again contain a user control that will be dynamically generated and can be repeated N times with respect to data present in data table.

How can i do this.

Answer 1

Place a placeholder control on the parent user control:

<asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" id="phMainHolder" />

In the Page_Load or Page_Init event you simply instantiate the child user controls in a for(each) loop and add them to the placeholder like for example:

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    ChildUC child = new ChildIC();
    phMainHolder.Controls.Add(child);
}

This is the bare minimum to do it. You can opt to set properties or whatever on your child controls of course.

The class ChildUC is a fictive class name for this example. Use the class, and if needed use the namespace as extra in which it is defined, of the user control you want to use.