Is MultiView the same as a TabStrip in ASP.NET 2.0?

[needin4mation]

I wanted easy tabs for my webpage and saw the new MultiView. I read
and couldn't tell, but is the MultiView the same as having tabs? Or
does MultiView bring everything at once and the user just selects it (a
tab?)

Thank you.

 

[Brock Allen]

In v1.x if you wanted to hide/show sections of the page a Panel was one way
to go about it, but you had to write the code to manage that. The MultiView
is essentially a control that does the equivalent of Panel management for
you.

The TabStrip was removed after Beta2, IIRC (maybe it was Beta1).

 

[clintonG]

Have you tried out the new Wizard control? That is a bunch of MultiViews
wired together.

One thing I discovered is MultiViews can not be nested which IMO is a
crippled implementation that hampers the ability to develop non-linear
views.

As for "tabs" I've been using styled LinkButtons.

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[needin4mation]

Do you have an example online of your styled LinkButtons?

 

[needin4mation]

So how do most developers accomplish tabs? The "old" way with a
graphical tab and a div underneath, or, gasp, a frame? Thanks again.

 

[Brock Allen]

So how do most developers accomplish tabs? The "old" way with a

graphical tab and a div underneath, or, gasp, a frame? Thanks again.

You'd do it the "old" way

Whenever there's a postback or link, then code in your page would have to
tell the MultiView what the current index is.

 

[clintonG]

Not public yet. Its not too difficult but is a bit noisy to keep track of
properties in code....

#region SelectedHeaderTab Method...
private void SelectedHeaderTab(string selectedTab)
{
switch (selectedTab)
{
case "HeaderTabSiteMap": // name of LinkButton
HeaderTabSiteMap.Enabled = false;
HeaderTabSiteMap.CssClass = "HeaderTopRowSelectedTab";
HeaderTabSoftware.Enabled = true;
HeaderTabSoftware.CssClass = "HeaderTab";
HeaderTabsBottomRowPanel.Visible = false;
Session["SelectedHeaderTab"] = "HeaderTabSiteMap";
break;

case "HeaderTabSoftware": // name of LinkButton
HeaderTabSiteMap.Enabled = true;
HeaderTabSiteMap.CssClass = "HeaderTab";
HeaderTabSoftware.Enabled = false;
HeaderTabSoftware.CssClass = "HeaderTopRowSelectedTab";
HeaderTabsBottomRowPanel.Visible = true;
Session["SelectedHeaderTab"] = "HeaderTabSoftware";
break;

default:
HeaderTabSiteMap.Enabled = true;
HeaderTabSiteMap.CssClass = "HeaderTab";
HeaderTabSoftware.Enabled = true;
HeaderTabSoftware.CssClass = "HeaderTab";
break;
}
}
#endregion

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[needin4mation]

I don't understand why there is not an easy way to do tabs. They're
everywhere on the Internet.