Hello VisualWebGUI "Family",

Host a VWG User Control or VWG WebForm inside UMBRACO CMS Open Source Product

This is my second week working out how to use your Product and Controls and coming from a MS Access Background I am impressed

I know you can host VWG inside a ASP.NET Page as per your webcast but when I followed the instructions it failed because of Themes (yes I did try adding the reference etc but this did not solve my issue - here I assume it is because I am using VS2010 and not VS2008 as in the webcast)

Ideally UMBRACO wants to host a User Control / ASCX Page rather than a WebForm / ASPX Page (as in the examples)

... so any ideas or pointers to the right direction would be great ???

My first post so ... Hi All :-)

Regards

"MD_Dev" (Spain, UK, Europe)

Hi Palli / Other VisualWevGUI "Family Members"

OK I can now host a VWG Form inside a ASP.NET Page and also inside a ASCX User Control using the Formbox Control

What I now want to do is add the User Control (ASCX) to UBRACO

When I register the ASCX User Control (which inside has a FormBox Control which of contains a VWG Form) to the CMS UMBRACO all looks OK because I can add the "Macro"

Below is a copy of me trying to register the Macro called MDTest1 to the page

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/masterpages/Visibly2Master.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>

<asp:content ContentPlaceHolderId="visibly_content" runat="server">

  hello 111
  
 <umbraco:Macro Alias="MD_Test1" runat="server" />

  hello 222

</asp:content>

The outcome is that the VWG Usercontrol does not render and an example is available at :-

http://www.parkendbarnreclamation.co.uk/development.aspx

where is simple displays :-

hello 111 <Macro: MD_Test1 (,)> hello 222

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction to make a VWG Form display inside the UMBRACO CMS product

Many Thanks In Advance

I can zip up and email my Visual Studio 2010 Project if needed

Regards

MD_DEV (Spain, UK, Europe)

Hi Palli,

(Thanks for your replay and suggestions)

First Answer: Yes I can successfully get a normal ASCX user control to render properly within the UMBRACO CMS

Second Answer: Yes I can take my ASCX usercontrol that includes my Visual WebGuii application (or form) within a FormBox and place this inside a normal ASPX Page - and this renders fine

I did look at your link but this did not throw me any real pointers ???

Do you think I should post a question on the UMBRACO forum to see if anyone else is using VisualWebGUI and UMBRACO CMS ?

I am a little under the pressure for this really to work "somehow" because I come from a MS Access Background and I find Winforms Development so much more quicker that traditional ASPX Page Programming - so who is the best person to ask for help?

If it cannot be done (VisualWebGUI inside UMBRACO CMS) then I will more on without VisualWebGUI :-(

Regards

MD_Dev (Spain, UK, Europe)