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[Article No. 17 @ 2007-10-19]

As a .NET developer I really love Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I use it in order to develop the main framework used by my company allowing us to produce electronic CRF for our customers.

In order to create dynamic forms, I really don't use the VS Toolbox, but I instance the WebControls at runtime. At runtime I create all the needed objects and setup all properties and event handlers; in this way it is possible to write this kind of code:

        TextBox age = new TextBox();

        age.ID = "PATIENT.AGE";

        agePlaceHolder.Controls.Add(age);


After that it's possible to add any kind of Validator to the created dobject.
Running this sample code (with the validator object added) in Windows and IIS all goes right; trying to run the same code on Mono/Apache I received some error.
The help comes from Visual Studio iteslef. If you try to set the ID property of an object in the Property Window you will receives the following:

Bingo ! It's not possible to use some special characters in the ID property of an object. The strange thing is that the error raise only when running the code on Mono/Apache andnothing happens with IIS.
I'll never stop to learn !!

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