I want to pass a property of the type System.Uri to an WebControl from inside an aspx page. Is it possible to pass the property like that: <MyUserControl id="myusercontrol" runat="server"> <MyUrlProperty> <System.Uri>http://myurl.com/</System.Uri> </MyUrlProperty> </MyUserControl> instead of: <MyUserControl id="myusercontrol" runat="server" MyUrlProperty="http://myurl.com/" /> which can't be casted from System.String to System.Uri