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Chris Farmer
Chris Farmer

Reputation: 25396

Web Parts with a markup file?

I'm an ASP.NET web part novice. I've built a few simple ones using only a class that derived from WebPart and overriding the CreateChildControls method, but nothing really very substantial. My question is whether it's possible to have a web part that also takes advantage of a separate html/asp.net markup file that will help provide some structure to the web part's output. In the past I just created server controls and added them to the controls collection, but this seems like a silly way to try to create a non-trivial layout. Can I do this? Do I have to use an ascx user control or can I bypass that step? There are a lot of hello world tutorials on web parts out there, but none seem to go past the CreateChildControls override. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 269

Answers (2)

Vroomfundel
Vroomfundel

Reputation: 732

The links in the above answer are no longer working, but here is an alternative one: http://www.a2zdotnet.com/View.aspx?Id=95

In VS 2010 we also have visual web parts, that I think do pretty much the same trick but it's wrapped in a project item. I've only seen this in the context of SharePoint so not sure how it works for ASP.NET projects. Here is an example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff597539.aspx

Upvotes: 0

Robert C. Barth
Robert C. Barth

Reputation: 23315

Yes, there is. Go here to learn about templated web parts, and go here to see all of the info he has on WebParts. I used this technique back in 2004/2005 and it worked very well.

Upvotes: 1

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