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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

You're reading from   Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit A comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and extending the powerful and freely available application from Microsoft.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811008
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
1. Introduction
1. The ASP.NET Community Starter Kit 2. Touring a Community Starter Kit Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating and Administering Community Websites 4. Themes, Skins, and the Common Controls 5. Customizing your Website 6. The Community Starter Kit Core Architecture 7. Inside a CSK Module 8. Creating a New Module 9. Customization with User Controls 10. Adding an RSS Feed 11. Deployment CSK Controls

FAQ WebControls


The CSK breaks up the display of content into smaller controls. For example, under Engine\Framework\ContentPages\Controls, you’ll find a control to display the content title (in Title.cs), and the content’s brief description (BriefDescription.cs), which can display our FAQ question and the introduction. All we will need to add are a couple of controls specific to the FAQ module: a control to display the answer and the reference, and a control to provide a link for authorized users to edit the FAQ content.

FaqAnswer and FaqReference

All of the controls at this level derive from the .NET Framework WebControl class. We simply need to set the CssClass property for our control, retrieve the text to display from the current HttpContext, and override the RenderContents method to write the text.

Create these controls in the Engine\Module\Faqs\Controls directory. The control to display the answer to an FAQ is as follows:

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System...
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