Programatically Adding an AutoCompleteExtender & AutoCompleteProperties

This is from the documentation:

To extend a text box with auto-completion behavior programmatically, add an AutoCompleteExtender control to your ASP.NET Web page, and use theServicePath andServiceMethod properties to specify the Web method that returns the item list. Then for each text box that you want to add the auto-completion behavior to,add anAutoCompleteProperties server control to theControls collection of the AutoCompleteExtender. The AutoCompleteProperities component enables you to specify the target control the extender should link to and to override the ServicePath and ServiceMode setting for individual controls.

So am I to understand that I add an AutoCompleteProperties instance to the AutoCompleteExtender.Controls collection?

When I try that I get this message in VS2005:

Value of type 'Microsoft.Web.UI.Controls.AutoCompleteProperties' cannot be converted to 'System.Web.UI.Control'.

hello.

well, you just need to add them as child elements of the control since it'll automaticatically parse those elements and add them to the targetproperties property.

...forgive me for my ignorance, but how exactly is that accomplished? Can you provide a brief example?

Thanks! :)

Dim autoComplete as New AutoCompleteExtender()
Dim props as New AutoCompleteProperties()
props.TargetControlID = "txt_suggestion"
props.ServiceURL = "/WebServices/Service.asmx"
props.ServiceMethod = "GetSuggestions"
autoComplete.TargetProperties.Add(props)
Page.Controls.add(autoComplete)

Hey that worked! Thanks!

I didn't know about the AutoCompleteExtender.TargetProperties.Add method, I was trying to add it to the controls collection of the AutoCompleteExtender.

FYI - The ServiceURL property in the above code is supposed to be ServicePath (at least in the July 06 release).