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Kris
I'm trying to develop several web controls in asp.net and to integrate them
with Front Page. Here comes the problem.
I need to accomplish three main tasks:
1.. Put web control on some kind of Front Page toolbox as placeholder so
designer can drag&drop it in HTML area.
2.. Create WYSIWYG placeholder for web control when being dropped in
design view
3.. Now here goes major problem. I want the user can format mentioned
placeholder. It is not important that placeholder shows real live data from
database, so to simplify problem it can contain several hard coded dummy
records.
I'm not sure did I explain my aim clearly. So the best example of all three
issues is already made in Microsoft Visual Studio.net. When you drag&drop
control (let's take a look at DataGrid for example) from control toolbox on
form, you got opportunity to format it with property builder and preview its
look and feel. That's exact functionality that I want to do.
Is it possible to accomplish this task with programming add-in for Front
Page?
Could you please direct me to related resources and maybe some simple
example?
Note: Result by dropping placeholder on form would generate simple code -
call to web control and this code would not have to be compiled. So after
saving with aspx extension would be ready to use. I tested this by inserting
code snippets that I created in FP, it works perfectly but this is very
inconvenient for designer. So you see the general idea.
Best regards,
Kristijan Kusanic, MCP
with Front Page. Here comes the problem.
I need to accomplish three main tasks:
1.. Put web control on some kind of Front Page toolbox as placeholder so
designer can drag&drop it in HTML area.
2.. Create WYSIWYG placeholder for web control when being dropped in
design view
3.. Now here goes major problem. I want the user can format mentioned
placeholder. It is not important that placeholder shows real live data from
database, so to simplify problem it can contain several hard coded dummy
records.
I'm not sure did I explain my aim clearly. So the best example of all three
issues is already made in Microsoft Visual Studio.net. When you drag&drop
control (let's take a look at DataGrid for example) from control toolbox on
form, you got opportunity to format it with property builder and preview its
look and feel. That's exact functionality that I want to do.
Is it possible to accomplish this task with programming add-in for Front
Page?
Could you please direct me to related resources and maybe some simple
example?
Note: Result by dropping placeholder on form would generate simple code -
call to web control and this code would not have to be compiled. So after
saving with aspx extension would be ready to use. I tested this by inserting
code snippets that I created in FP, it works perfectly but this is very
inconvenient for designer. So you see the general idea.
Best regards,
Kristijan Kusanic, MCP