HELP: XML/XSLT/ASP.NET Calendar Control

Martin Honnen · May 6th, 2008, 09:26 AM

I did not suggest to use XSLT to generate ASP.NET controls, that seems to be a choice you have made. My suggestions on this thread aim to get that working, once you have made that choice. Your earlier attempts failed completely in getting the calender control to be created. The way you create the control does not matter and I don't see why the code I have suggested forces you to put the calender on every page, you can always use conditions in your code to insert the calendar when and where you want it inserted.

If you want to use XSLT to create ASP.NET controls like an asp:Calendar control then you need to use the ParseControl method to parse the result of the XSLT transformation into an ASP.NET conrol. That is the main suggestion I have made, to get that approach working at all. Whether you do that in your master page or not is up to you and not really an XSLT issue, more a question on how to build web applications with ASP.NET.

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Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP - XML

kwilliams · May 6th, 2008, 09:32 AM

...which is fine. But I stated that my site uses a Master Page method that tranforms the XML/XSL differently than you had suggested on the post from "05/05/2008 : 10:17:38 AM" on this thread, and I asked if you could let me know how I could use ParseControl method within my setup. I also posted the code for how my site's set up on the post from "05/05/2008 : 2:30:03 PM".

So is there a way to use the ParseControl method you suggested within my setup? I appreciate your help.

KWilliams

Martin Honnen · May 6th, 2008, 09:56 AM

Your master page has an asp:Xml control and code in the Page_Load handler to set properties of that control. Instead of that asp:Xml control put an asp:PlaceHolder control there and then in your Page_Load handler put the code I suggested:

Code:

Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

  Dim proc As New XslCompiledTransform()
  proc.Load(Server.MapPath("XSLTFile1.xsl"))
  Dim writer As New StringWriter()
  proc.Transform(XmlReader.Create(Server.MapPath("XMLFile1.xml")), null, writer)
  P1.Controls.Add(Page.ParseControl(writer.ToString()))

End Sub

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Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP - XML

kwilliams · May 8th, 2008, 12:55 PM

...thanks for the code.

How would I then call it from the XSLT doc?

KWilliams

kwilliams · May 8th, 2008, 03:43 PM

I've found a great working solution at: http://incrementaldevelopment.com/xsltrick/parvez/

It uses XML and XSLT without the need for the ASP.NET calendar control. Thanks for your help.:)

KWilliams