// // System.Web.UI.INonBindingContainer // // Authors: // Marek Habersack (mhabersack@novell.com) // // (C) 2008-2010 Novell, Inc. (http://www.novell.com) // // // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining // a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the // "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including // without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, // distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to // permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to // the following conditions: // // The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be // included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. // // THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, // EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF // MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND // NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE // LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION // OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION // WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. // namespace System.Web.UI { // Apparently this attribute is used in place of our BINDING_CONTAINER control mask bit, // which makes sense as in certain scenarios (e.g. TemplateControlAttribute naming a // container type which cannot be used for two-way binding) the check must be made on type, // not on object. // // This interface is briefly mentioned in: // http://www.developmentnow.com/g/10_2006_6_0_0_776419/DataBinding-to-SubProperties.htm // // For a sample of why this is needed, see: // // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.templatepagerfield.pagertemplate.aspx // The C# code on the above page won't work without this interface being implemented and // used in ControlBuilder.BindingContainerType. The reason why the sample wouldn't work is // that the TemplatePagerField.PagerTemplate property carries a custom TemplateContainer // (typeof (DataPagerFieldItem)) attribute and, without INonBindingContainer interface // attached to DataPagerFieldItem, mono would generate code with the Container and // BindingContainer referring to DataPagerFieldItem. In such case, attempting to access // DataPager properties would obviously fail. Looking at the MS.NET generated code, // Container and BindingContainer are of the DataPager type in this instance. // internal interface INonBindingContainer { } }