VWG ASP.NET Wrapper
Hi all,
In the last 2 days we are devoting time and resources to QA
the Asp.Net control Wrapper and I just had to give you a
small heads up about it so you could start planning.
To those of you that are not familiar with the issue a long
time ago we created a demo to show how you can take Asp.Net
components that you bought from a third party or created
yourself and wrap them and use them as
VWG controls, And by that increasing the richness of your control
library. It was not a very easy task to do.
When I got to writing an article about it I found out how
hard it was to do this and I also found a few bugs that just
made it impossible to use.
This led us to rethink the entire control wrapping idea. And
I’m happy to say that we found a very nice solution.
The new wrapping feature is not only useful it’s also easy.
All you have to do is add to your project a reference to
the DLL that holds the control. Then you need to right on
the project and select Add->Asp.Net control wrapper. You
will be prompt with a list of controls from the list of
assembles that are referenced in the project. After you
select a control you want to wrap and name it VWG will
generate a new control that wraps the Asp.Net control. You
can now use it by dragging it to the from the tool box
And with that we covered wrapping of Asp.Net controls. I
hope that you are making the same “wow” sounds that I made
when I saw this the first time.
This will be release in 6.3 but you will be able to use it
in 6.3 pre release version that we will release later on
next week.
This is also a new thing that we plan to do, and that to
release a few version pre release before the official
release to allow you to see the new features and bug fix
before the version is out. These versions are just for fun
and games and to satisfy your hunger and should be treated
that way.
I will release a much more detailed article and demo later
on.
Enjoy,
Eyal Albert
Eyal Albert