Layout Template a User Control - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 18-Nov-2011 00:00

There is a way to template a User Control (not a Custom Control).

The thing is we have a bunch of standard .NET user controls and want to register them in the toolbox and be able to change the LayoutTemplate using Sitefinity. Is this possible ?

Thanks in advance for any thought on this.

Posted by Community Admin on 20-Nov-2011 00:00

Do you just mean this?

<add tagName="MenuSearchBar" tagPrefix="ocfp" src="~/UserControls/Menu/MenuSearchBar.ascx" />

If you add it to the web.config with the above line then you can use it in your .master file.

...or you can register it in the backend Settings->Toolbox like this

<add enabled="True" type="~/UserControls/CME/OnTheRoadCalendar/OnTheRoadCalendar.ascx" title="OnTheRoadCalendar" description="OnTheRoadCalendar" cssClass="ontheroadIcon" layoutTemplate="~/UserControls/CME/OnTheRoadCalendar/OnTheRoadCalendar.ascx" visibilityMode="None" name="OnTheRoadCalendar" />

...and then it allows you to drag and drop it onto a page dynamically in the page editor :)

If I've got your question wrong, please let me know :)

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2011 00:00

Thanks Steve,,

Is more complicated than that ... Actually I want to take advantage of some Sitefinity template replacement (engine, core) etc but without having to use Custom Controls... I far as know custom controls inherit from ViewBase, ContentView etc.
But "user controls" are simple plain asp net web user controls.

Can I use template replacement mechanism on out of the box web user controls...? Need to implement some interface for example ITemplate ?

With template replacement mechanism I mean be able to change a widget template using the LayoutTemplateName , Virtual Paths ,config .. or whatever.

Thanks again..

Posted by Community Admin on 24-Nov-2011 00:00

Hello Ronnie,

I understand what you need, but I don't think this would be possible. In .ascx controls the view and the code-behind are dependent on each-other, which means that you cannot separate them without making the control a custom one (inheriting from ViewBase), which would separate view and "viewmodel".

All the best,
Svetoslav Petsov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 29-Nov-2011 00:00

Thanks a lot, that's what I thought...

Posted by Community Admin on 30-Nov-2011 00:00

Hi Ronnie,

Glad that we cleared this out. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,
Svetoslav Petsov
the Telerik team

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