Use ASP.Net server control code generation from .ashx

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Published on 2010-04-28T18:46:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 18:47 UTC
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I'm trying to take an existing bunch of code that was previously on a full .aspx page, and do the same stuff in a .ashx handler.

The code created an HtmlTable object, added rows and cells to those rows, then added that html table the .aspx's controls collection, then added it to a div that was already on the page.

I am trying to keep the code in tact but instead of putting the control into a div, actually generate the html and I'll return that in a big chunk of text that can be called via AJAX client-side.

HtmlTable errors out when I try to use the InnerHtml property (says it isn't supported), and when I try RenderControl, after making first a TextWriter and next an HtmlTextWriter object, I get the error that Page cannot be null.

Has anyone done this before? Any suggestions?

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