Designing the UI of a WebPart

[Tom]

Dear experts,

starting out with ASP.NET 2.0 (and sharepoint services 3.0) I've found
many really great innovations.

After starting out reading things about webparts I think that webparts
are a good thing - especially when using them with sites based on
sharepoint services 3.0.

But one thing I did not understand - probably someone can help or
explain:

When creating a webpart all samples explain that you have to place all
controls (or html code) to build the UI within the "RenderWebPart"
method. The samples I have seen always use 2 or the 3 simple controls
- but did anybody think about a complex design yet ??

I'd like to build a webpart containing some kind of toolbar (table
containing images), a datagrid and some state messages. To do this I
need to use html-tables which means my design-part will probably
contain more than 50 lines of HTML code. So I can copy an paste that
html code into "RenderWebPart" method to view my result. Doin some
changes I paste the things again - really ugly work.

Did I understand anything wrong, are there any tools to create a UI
for a webpart or does anybody see another solution ??

Thanks for any idea, feedback or solution ...

Tom

 

[Masudur]

Dear experts,

starting out with ASP.NET 2.0 (and sharepoint services 3.0) I've found
many really great innovations.

After starting out reading things about webparts I think that webparts
are a good thing - especially when using them with sites based on
sharepoint services 3.0.

But one thing I did not understand - probably someone can help or
explain:

When creating a webpart all samples explain that you have to place all
controls (or html code) to build the UI within the "RenderWebPart"
method. The samples I have seen always use 2 or the 3 simple controls
- but did anybody think about a complex design yet ??

I'd like to build a webpart containing some kind of toolbar (table
containing images), a datagrid and some state messages. To do this I
need to use html-tables which means my design-part will probably
contain more than 50 lines of HTML code. So I can copy an paste that
html code into "RenderWebPart" method to view my result. Doin some
changes I paste the things again - really ugly work.

Did I understand anything wrong, are there any tools to create a UI
for a webpart or does anybody see another solution ??

Thanks for any idea, feedback or solution ...

Tom

Hi... Use SmartPart...in Sharepoint..........
SmartPart is used to show a asp.net 2.0 usercontrol
you can use vs2005 designer to designer and then use the user control
via
Webpart...

Thanks
Masudur
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