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copied!<p>This is a dirty solution I used for the moment (get it working then get it right, right?).</p> <p>I had already created a new class that inherits the UserControl class and from which all other "UserControls" I created were derived. I called it formPartial (nod to Rails), and this is going inside the public string renderMyHTML() method:</p> <pre><code>TextWriter myTextWriter = new StringWriter(); HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(myTextWriter); UserControl myDuplicate = new UserControl(); TextBox blankTextBox; foreach (Control tmpControl in this.Controls) { switch (tmpControl.GetType().ToString()) { case "System.Web.UI.LiteralControl": blankLiteral = new LiteralControl(); blankLiteral.Text = ((LiteralControl)tmpControl).Text; myDuplicate.Controls.Add(blankLiteral); break; case "System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox": blankTextBox = new TextBox(); blankTextBox.ID = ((TextBox)tmpControl).ID; blankTextBox.Text = ((TextBox)tmpControl).Text; myDuplicate.Controls.Add(blankTextBox); break; // ...other types of controls (ddls, checkboxes, etc.) } } myDuplicate.RenderControl(myWriter); return myTextWriter.ToString(); </code></pre> <p>Drawbacks off the top of my head:</p> <ol> <li>You need a case statement with every possible control (or controls you expect).</li> <li>You need to transfer all the important attributes from the existing control (textbox, etc) to the new blank control.</li> <li>Doesn't take full advantage of Controls' RenderControl method.</li> </ol> <p>It'd be easy to mess up 1 or 2. Hopefully, though, this helps someone else come up with a more elegant solution.</p>

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