tabs galore

[Guest]

Hey all,
I'm currently working on an asp.net 2.0 project that has many tabs on the
home page. Behind the scenes seems like a nightmare to manage because all the
tabs represented on the home page is a View control inside a MultiView
control (wow, i know). Well I need to add an extra tab to this and i'm afraid
to touch this thing.

does anyone know a good a way to abstract this new tab away from the
confusion cloud?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Mark Rae]

does anyone know a good a way to abstract this new tab away from the
confusion cloud?

Is this not all set up in the markup, then...?

 

[Guest]

Hi Mark,
I'm not sure I understand your reply, please forgive me. Could you please
elaborate a little.
Rodchar

 

[Mark Rae]

I'm not sure I understand your reply, please forgive me. Could you please
elaborate a little.

You mentioned that the tabs were set up using a MultiView control and a lot
of View controls - I was asking if this was done in the markup as opposed to
being dynamically created in code-behind...

Does it not resemble something like this:?
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/TabControl.asp

If so, is it not simply a question of adding another <asp:View> control
wherever you need the new tab to appear...?

 

[Guest]

yeah that's very true however, what i was wondering is with the basic View
control in place for the new tab could i take the guts of the new tab and
somehow extract it out into another page or user control, or better
suggestions?

 

[Mark Rae]

yeah that's very true however, what i was wondering is with the basic View
control in place for the new tab could i take the guts of the new tab and
somehow extract it out into another page or user control, or better
suggestions?

Er, well an <asp:View> is just a container for other controls, so there's
really nothing to stop you doing anything you want with them...

I'm really not seeing what the problem is here...

 

[Guest]

i guess i just didn't want to have to go and add new code to the existing
code behind page because it is a huge code behind.

 

[Mark Rae]

i guess i just didn't want to have to go and add new code to the existing
code behind page because it is a huge code behind.

OK - here's what to do...

1) In Project Explorer, highlight the file in question.

2) Type Ctrl-C

3) Type Ctrl-V

You really will be OK...