I was doing ok until Chap. 4

Wrong Planet · August 18th, 2011, 08:51 AM

Correction: I meant to say Chapter 6

So far I've been able to follow along with the fine instruction and 'Try It Out' exercises in the book. What I'm about to say isn't anything about a problem that I'm having or the way the information was presented. This is about Microsoft's implementation of template creation. When I got to the part where I had to rename the class to $relurlnamespace$_$safeitemname$ that's where I started asking myself a lot of questions. With all the automatic code creation and all the Intellisense that is available with the Visual Studio development tools, this is the best that MS has to offer? First of all this parameter name, and others like it, is about as obscure as it could possibly be. As a complete novice to ASP.NET how in the world would I ever figure this out on my own? My 5 minute search on "How to create an ASP.NET template" doesn't really lead to anything about these parameters. I just can't believe that I'm going to have to remember the "magic code" in order to create a template. Please tell me there's a better way.

Imar · August 18th, 2011, 12:28 PM

No, unfortunately you're corrrect. There is no easier way, and creating them is not documented very well either. I had to get in touch with the Web Development team from Microsoft to find out this specific tag. That's why I wanted to mention it in my book so it's at least documented somewhere.

Good thing is: you don't have to deal with this very often.... ;-)

Imar