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
On November 19, 2007, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008.
In researching the type of lenses I wanted for a Nikon D80, I became increasingly frustrated by the type and quality of information available. User suggestions and ratings tended to focus on the most expensive lenses and ignored price. I had a limited budget, but wanted to know what would give me a good value for my budget.
In early 2007, I decided to get a digital SLR. This is a summary of the research and reasoning that led me to purchase the Nikon D80 and the Nikon 18-135mm lens and various accessories as well as my feedback and review of the products.
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)