asp.net designer how to get the designed page type

Question

hi,

I want to find out inside a webcontrol the real type of the page that is designed in Visual Studio 2008.

I can obtain the WebFormsRootDesigner, and somehow i know it is possible to get the

file path of the aspx page.

I would like rather to get the ProjectItem for that page, because it would be an overkill to have the control parse the file, but i cannot find a way to do this.

And from the projectitem of an aspx page i have no clue how to get the page class...

I want my webcontrol to behave differently at designtime depending on the page type.

Thanks

Answer 1

That's a really bad design. It's always bad to have the "inner" behave differently based on the "outer", or the "child" to be based on the "parent".

Instead, have the page tell the control how to behave, by setting a property. Different pages will tell the same control to behave in different ways. This way, if you add a new page, it can still choose to use one of the existing behaviors.