Ok then, I am finally taking some time to post my article on templated control designers in ASP.NET 2.0. I had first planned to write it for The Code Project, but I think my blog is the proper place.
What can you expect to read in this five part series on designers? First a simple templated control will be introduced. I will write various designers for this control. Each designer provides some extra piece of the design-time puzzle. The first designer will be the simplest of its kind and will be developed in the second part of this series. Next I will add support for design-time rendering in the third blog post. One new cool design-time feature is the use of smart-tags, which will be added to the designer logic in the fourth part. The final stretch, the fifth part of this series, will entail adding editable regions to the designer which allow the user to edit the contents of templates directly without having to enter the template editing mode explicitly.
I will place all five parts on my blog so bear with me, dotText sometimes mangles blog posts and I have only given myself two hours to write it all up, so here we go with the first part.
PS. I am unable to upload any code to my blog, mail me for the code or article in proper DOC format .
[EDIT] There is now a GotDotNET workspace which hosts the files.
[EDIT]And yes indeed, dotText nicely mangled the formatting. Please let me know if it's not readable anymore in your browser, I did try to repair it here and there.
[EDIT]I only had enought time to place the first three parts, expect the other two tomorrow.