Render pages in ContentArea (Webforms)

Alexander Wagner

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Hi!

I've seen a lot of guides on how to render pages in ContentAreas in MVC but I can't find any guides on how to do that in Webforms. Is there an easy way to do that?

#88507

Jul 15, 2014 13:55

Johan Petersson

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Hi,

Have you installed the Visual Studio Tools? There are templates for partial controls.

Basically you create a new user control and inherit from ContentControlBase. Then you can decorate the user control with the TemplateDescriptor attribute, e.g.:

[TemplateDescriptor(
    Inherited = true, 
    AvailableWithoutTag = true)]
public partial class NewsArticleTeaser : ContentControlBase
{
}

#88515

Jul 15, 2014 16:53

Alexander Wagner

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Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for :)

#88535

Jul 16, 2014 11:56

Eric

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If you use [TemplateDescriptor()] as mentioned above you can also control where the pages are allowed to be rendered as well by using Tags = string [] {"YourTagName"}

Then you use RenderSettings on your episerver:property-webcontrol to set the tag name as well

#88536

Jul 16, 2014 12:22