1. Mo dule 8: Creating User Controls

2. Overview

• Adding User Controls to an ASP.NET Web Form

• Creating User Controls

3. Lesson: Adding User Controls to an ASP.NET Web Form

• What is a User Control?

• Why Use User Controls?

• Practice: Listing User Controls

• Adding a User Control

• Demonstration: Creating a User Control

4. What is a User Control?

• User controls simplify the reuse of code and UI components within a Web application

• A user control is a user-defined Web server control with an .ascx extension

• Contains HTML, but not the , , or tags

• or

• Contains code to handle its own events

5. Why Use User Controls?

• Reuse user interface and code

Page3.aspx Application A Application B Page2.aspx Control1.ascx Page1.aspx

6. Practice: Listing User Controls

• Students will:

• • List examples of when it is appropriate to use user controls

• Time: 5 minutes

7. Adding a User Control

• Use the @ Register directive to include a user control in an ASP.NET Page

• Insert the user control in a Web Form

• Use Get and Set properties of the user control

• or

num1.pNum = 5 'uses Set x = num1.pNum 'uses Get num1.pNum = 5; //uses Set x = num1.pNum; //uses Get

8. Demonstration: Creating a User Control

• Create a new user control

• Create a property

9. Lesson: Creating User Controls

• Creating a User Control

• Demonstration: Using a User Control

10. Creating a User Control

• Two methods for user control creation:

• • Create a new user control using Visual Studio .NET

• • Convert an existing ASP.NET page to a user control

• Host page interacts with the control using properties

• Host page should use flow layout

Public Property pNum() As Integer Get Return Convert.ToInt32(txtNum.Text) End Get Set (ByVal value As Integer) txtNum.Text = CStr(value) End Set End Property public int pNum { get { return Convert.ToInt32(txtNum.Text); } set { txtNum.Text = Convert.ToString(value); } }

11. Demonstration: Using a User Control

• Insert a user control on a page

• Use the user controls in the code-behind page

12. Review

• Adding User Controls to an ASP.NET Web Form

• Creating User Controls

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