http://weblogs.asp.net/dmarsh/archive/2003/11/25/39793.aspxPreface: I've seen this discussed before, but haven't really found a solution through all my searching, so I'm hoping I'm just missing something. As you may or may not know, if you're creating a server control you can enable that control to be automagicallyenCommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)http://weblogs.asp.net/dmarsh/archive/2003/11/25/39793.aspx#39876Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:07:00 GMTc06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:39876Ian GriffithsIan GriffithsCan't you make the cached control the child of an uncached control? The uncached control wouldn't contribute anything to the output - it just wraps the cached control. That way you can put your behaviour in the uncached control, but still get caching for its child.<img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=39876" width="1" height="1">http://weblogs.asp.net/dmarsh/archive/2003/11/25/39793.aspx#39813Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:24:00 GMTc06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:39813AndrewAndrewI had some controls where I used a code only control and an ascx. <br> <br>The code only control would check the cache in Render based on it's properties and then LoadControl the ascx if I needed to generate some html. <br><img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=39813" width="1" height="1">http://weblogs.asp.net/dmarsh/archive/2003/11/25/39793.aspx#39806Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:42:00 GMTc06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:39806Oddur MagnussonOddur MagnussonI manually override the render method to provide my own caching. Mainly because I can't set the value of the attribute dynamicly<img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=39806" width="1" height="1">