Monday, March 26, 2012

tabs galore

Hey all,
I'm currently working on an asp.net 2.0 project that has many tabs on the
home page. Behind the scenes seems like a nightmare to manage because all the
tabs represented on the home page is a View control inside a MultiView
control (wow, i know). Well I need to add an extra tab to this and i'm afraid
to touch this thing.

does anyone know a good a way to abstract this new tab away from the
confusion cloud?

thanks,
rodchar"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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does anyone know a good a way to abstract this new tab away from the
confusion cloud?


Is this not all set up in the markup, then...?
Hi Mark,
I'm not sure I understand your reply, please forgive me. Could you please
elaborate a little.
Rodchar

"Mark Rae" wrote:

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"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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does anyone know a good a way to abstract this new tab away from the
confusion cloud?


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Is this not all set up in the markup, then...?
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"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Originally Posted by

I'm not sure I understand your reply, please forgive me. Could you please
elaborate a little.


You mentioned that the tabs were set up using a MultiView control and a lot
of View controls - I was asking if this was done in the markup as opposed to
being dynamically created in code-behind...

Does it not resemble something like this:?
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/TabControl.asp
If so, is it not simply a question of adding another <asp:Viewcontrol
wherever you need the new tab to appear...?
yeah that's very true however, what i was wondering is with the basic View
control in place for the new tab could i take the guts of the new tab and
somehow extract it out into another page or user control, or better
suggestions?

"Mark Rae" wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Originally Posted by

I'm not sure I understand your reply, please forgive me. Could you please
elaborate a little.


>
You mentioned that the tabs were set up using a MultiView control and a lot
of View controls - I was asking if this was done in the markup as opposed to
being dynamically created in code-behind...
>
Does it not resemble something like this:?
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/TabControl.asp
>
If so, is it not simply a question of adding another <asp:Viewcontrol
wherever you need the new tab to appear...?
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>
>


"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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yeah that's very true however, what i was wondering is with the basic View
control in place for the new tab could i take the guts of the new tab and
somehow extract it out into another page or user control, or better
suggestions?


Er, well an <asp:Viewis just a container for other controls, so there's
really nothing to stop you doing anything you want with them...

I'm really not seeing what the problem is here...
i guess i just didn't want to have to go and add new code to the existing
code behind page because it is a huge code behind.

"Mark Rae" wrote:

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Originally Posted by

"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Quote:

Originally Posted by

yeah that's very true however, what i was wondering is with the basic View
control in place for the new tab could i take the guts of the new tab and
somehow extract it out into another page or user control, or better
suggestions?


>
Er, well an <asp:Viewis just a container for other controls, so there's
really nothing to stop you doing anything you want with them...
>
I'm really not seeing what the problem is here...
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"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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>i guess i just didn't want to have to go and add new code to the existing
code behind page because it is a huge code behind.


OK - here's what to do...

1) In Project Explorer, highlight the file in question.

2) Type Ctrl-C

3) Type Ctrl-V

You really will be OK... :-)

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