Trailing on the lead from Chris Blankenship and his singlepost user control, I created a multi-post user control. I’ve never been quite satisfied with the results of the recent posts control and Chris’s control filled in enough gaps for me to pursue this further.
I happen to keep my custom controls in /UserCustom instead of /UserControls. That way, I know these controls are not Blog Engine.Net controls and won’t need to be merged in the future.
Example
Despite the best developer tools, sometimes having the ability to see what the browser sees can be invaluable in troubleshooting a CSS layout issue, or a performance or load issue. Firebug, Fiddler and the IE Developer toolbar are supposed to help see the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that the browser sees.
There seems to be a growing trend in the web community to remove spaces between words. The fact that domain names cannot have spaces further complicates the matter.
After looking at Web Applications On The iPod Touch, I thought I'd share some of the patterns used in designing an application for a 320 pixel x 240 pixel Windows CE 5 device. These same design patterns and apply to designing for the iPod Touch and the iPhone as well.
Usage from ASP
1: <%@ Register src="../../UserCustom/MultiPosts.ascx" tagname="MultiPosts" tagprefix="uc7" %>
1: <uc7:MultiPosts ID="MultiPosts1" runat="server"
2: CategoryList="photography"
3: ContentLength="120"
4: Count="3"
5: DateFormat="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}"
6: ShowAuthor="false"
7: ShowContent="true"
8: ShowDate="false"
9: ShowDescription="true"
10: ShowTitle="true" />
Usage in Posts or Pages
Remove the space between the bracke and the word usercontrol.
1: [ usercontrol: ~/UserCustom/MultiPosts.ascx
2: ShowDescription=true;
3: Count=3;
4: ShowContent=false;
5: ShowAuthor=true;
6: ShowDate=true;
7: ShowTitle=true;
8: ContentLength=360;
9: CategoryList=photography;
10: DateFormat={0:MM/dd/yyyy}; ]
Post.cs Add AuthorAbsoluteLink
In order to reduce some of the clutter in the ASCX control template, I created a new property on the Post object to display the Authors link. If you want to stay with the mainline BE code base, you’ll need to modify the ASCX to set the asp:Hyperlink for AuthorLink to the code shown below.
1: public Uri AuthorAbsoluteLink
2: {
3: get
4: {
5: string authorLink = Utils.RemoveIllegalCharacters(Author);
6: authorLink = Utils.RelativeWebRoot + "author/" + HttpContext.Current.Server.UrlEncode(authorLink) + BlogSettings.Instance.FileExtension;
7: return Utils.ConvertToAbsolute(authorLink);
8: }
9: }
Download
UserCustom.zip (2.37 kb)