Adding web part to a CatalogZone programmatically

[Johan]

Doing some testing on ASP.NET 2.0 here...

I'm looking for a way to programmatically add web parts to a
CatalogZone. I cannot use WebPartManager.AddWebPart() method because the
CatalogZone is not based on the WebPartZoneBase class.

/Johan

 

[Mike Harder [MSFT]]

CatalogZones do not directly contain WebParts. CatalogZones contain
CatalogParts, and CatalogParts can indirectly contain WebParts, in the
sense that CatalogParts offer up WebParts that can be added to the page.

I assume that you want to dynamically add WebParts to a CatalogPart. You
can potentially do this with the DeclarativeCatalogPart by programmatically
setting the WebPartsTemplate. However, you will probably be better off
writing your own CatalogPart that does exactly what you want. Just derive
from CatalogPart and override the GetAvailableWebPartDescriptions() and
GetWebPartMethods().

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[Johan]

Ah, that's what I thought. First I was going to write my own kind of
"catalog", just a simple list of available Web Parts and add them using
the WebPartManager.AddWebPart() method. But I'll look into deriving from
CatalogPart, that looks funny

Thanks for the tip.

/Johan