Custom Controls without standard box

What is that huge block?
When I create my custom control it is dragged onto the surface and there is this big block element on the canvas. I have made some simple custom controls that basically hold a formatted link. 

For example. I create a list item as a custom control. 

<custom control>

<li> <a href='<%# NavigateUrl'><%# LinkText %></a></li>


Then in the  page I create a simple placeholder within the list.

<ul>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolderFormattedLinks" runat="server" >
</ul>

This certainly works. I can register my user control and start dragging links into the template. However, this list becomes a massive section of blocks that you can't see properly until runtime. It would be nice if there was a light-weight user control that allowed us to have the code render just as it would at runtime rather than all the designer bulk. You could easily add a mouseover to view the context menu for these items.

Hi Jaime,

Thanks for your suggestion. We will log it and consider it as a feature implementation. Currently you can create a custom widget that works in a similar way as CotnentBlock where you can inject your links. You can expose some custom properties or a single property of type string that you can serialize.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team