Comments on: Fun with IView and IViewEngine

By: herbrandson

herbrandson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:34:59 +0000

Great! I’m glad it’s working for you now.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:09:59 +0000

Alrighty - something weired with my VS2008 intellisense due to which I could not get to the method… but typing it in solved the problem & the code works, odd but true!

Thanks for this concept & all the help!

By: herbrandson

herbrandson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:34:18 +0000

If DynamicView.Render is not being called, it sounds like the request is not being handled by the DynamicViewEngine. Is DynamicViewEngine.FindView being called? If so, is it returning a ViewEngineResult with an instance of DynamicView?

AddContentTemplate is a function on DynamicViewPage and it handles rendering content to the correct content area on the master page. The source code for AddContentTemplate is included in the original post. You shouldn’t need to deal with it.

Let me know if you’re still having trouble.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:55:26 +0000

well, I have the code exactly as shown here.

The Render method of my view class does not get called, so even though I can see the master page & layout applied to the rendered output, I am not able to see my view.

I dont know what code needs to go into the AddContentTemplate method.

Thanks for your reply!

By: herbrandson

herbrandson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:56:10 +0000

@Sunny - AddContentTemplate is a function on the private class “DynamicViewPage”. Are you using DynamicViewPage (instead of ViewPage) in DynamicView.Render?

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:39:56 +0000

In continuation - I am missing the method:

AddContentTemplate(contentPlaceHolderId,
compiledTemplateBuilder);

seems like some thing is missing

thanks

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:32:05 +0000

hey,

I love this concept & I was hoping to use it in one of my projects. But seems like the Render method of the ViewUserControl is not getting called, is something missing in your code sample?

thanks

By: herbrandson

herbrandson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:12:20 +0000

@Andrej - I don’t think it would be too hard to make something like that work. Try adding another ViewUserControl property to DynamicView (named something like “LeftBar”) and use viewPage.AddContentControl to render it in the desired content area.

By: Andrej Kaurin

Andrej Kaurin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:43:48 +0000

Hello, nice work. What I am trying to do is the following:
- Pages are dynamic and created programmatically

PageID MasterPageLocation
—————————–
1 “~/app_master/default.master”

next I have list of partial views like this

ViewID ContentPlaceHolderID PageID Path
———————————————
1 “LeftBar” 1 “~/some.ascx”
2 “MainContent 1 “~/other.ascx”

Maybe good thing to think about since most of CMS systems requires such approach.