Hi Carlos,

I think I have now understood an easy solution to generate tidy html as well! I guess Mitchel Sellers also tried to explain me, but the coin did not drop...now it does. No compression needed! I think it should even be in the DNN programmers guidelines since this really works out perfectly. I was used to put a server control from the designer toolbox and drag that into my form. However, this has a considerable performance penalty since ids are generated (which are sometimes longer thatn the actual html) and server controls are processed server side on a postback, although they only visualize data is some cases.

By avoiding server controls to a large extend I get a considerable performance boost!  It is also recommended by MS and I strongly recommend to put it in the general DNN programmer's manual since most modules use server controls everywhere. This makes every page to be processed at the server, but also gives large html pages.

The only thing I am struggling with: how can I allow VS2005 to validate the code between <%= %> tags in an ascx control? I believed in the app-code setup this is done automatically, but how to switch it on for web project style in VS2005?

Any help is appreciated.

Jelle

 <a href="<%# ProductUrl(Container.DataItem) %>"></a> instead of asp:hyperlink.