Help: Webform Header & Footer Control

[Nicholas]

Here is the issue:

1. I would like to create an ASP.Net/C# control to append a dynamic
header and footer to **every** web page (depending on the page the
content of each will vary).

I can easily create the control yet herein lay the problem:

2. The folks who edit the HTML content are NOT programmers and even
though the content pages will have an aspx extension, there will be
no code behind .cs

I really would prefer them not to be required to learn how to create a
code-behind and create an instance of my control.

My preference would be that each page has a simple tag such as

<%@ Register TagPrefix="cor" Namespace="Some.Header.And.Footer"
Assembly="Some.Header.And.Footer" %>

<cor:HeaderAndFooter id="header" runat="server" />

And the control renders the HTML without each .ASPX page requiring a
code-behind.

Is this possible?

Thank you for the help!

[Karl Seguin]

While this doesn't answer your question directly, I think you'd find master
pages (which are built-in feature in 2.0). The best I've used are
MetaBuilders (free) http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/MasterPages.aspx

it should give your non-programmers the clean separation needed.

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/
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Here is the issue:

1. I would like to create an ASP.Net/C# control to append a dynamic
header and footer to **every** web page (depending on the page the
content of each will vary).

I can easily create the control yet herein lay the problem:

2. The folks who edit the HTML content are NOT programmers and even
though the content pages will have an aspx extension, there will be
no code behind .cs

I really would prefer them not to be required to learn how to create a
code-behind and create an instance of my control.

My preference would be that each page has a simple tag such as

<%@ Register TagPrefix="cor" Namespace="Some.Header.And.Footer"
Assembly="Some.Header.And.Footer" %>

<cor:HeaderAndFooter id="header" runat="server" />

And the control renders the HTML without each .ASPX page requiring a
code-behind.

Is this possible?

Thank you for the help!

[Nicholas]

Thank you! I will look into these.

N.

In the year Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:05:37 -0500, "Karl Seguin" <karl
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chimpanzees 50 typewriters and this was what they wrote:

From: "Karl Seguin" <karl REMOVE @ REMOVE openmymind REMOVEMETOO . ANDME net>
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Subject: Re: Webform Header & Footer Control
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:05:37 -0500

While this doesn't answer your question directly, I think you'd find master
pages (which are built-in feature in 2.0). The best I've used are
MetaBuilders (free) http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/MasterPages.aspx

it should give your non-programmers the clean separation needed.

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/
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