I have a web application (ASP.NET Mvc) and I need to display Python's package 'Readme' which comes from .rst file.
The problem is that, there are some built in fucntions that can display for example .md file content, but I can not find any solution to show this 'Readme' in .rst format inside my HTML. Ofcourse there are some online converters from .rst to .md that has API, but I would like to avoid that.
So, is there any mechanism provided in the framework that I am missing that can help me with that?
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Background: I'm trying to make an extremely light news sort of...thing that relies entirely on hard code ASPX documents (not my decision). What I would like to do is create a bit of dynamic updating by having the main news page pull the latest ASPX file from a folder and get its "TopContent" section on the main page. How would I best be able to do that? I'm stuck with ASP.NET 2.0 on this project as well.
So I didn't quite transclude ASPX documents, but I found a way to get this to work by having XML files with the data pieces I needed and just using that. No problem.
In detailed: An XML file containing the title, the top content and the main content and then using a URL argument to figure out which file to open.
In ASP.NET MVC I can typically override view e.g. by putting a view with the same name in the DisplayTemplates folder. If I wanted to override the way images are rendered, I could put something like Images.cshtml in the folder.
Now, I want to override the way xforms are rendered in EPiServer. I know how to do this in ASP.NET MVC, but this project uses Webforms.
I have tried to search, but the documentation seems sparse on the subject. In ASP.NET MVC, I could e.g. extend the search engine to search specific locations to look for my views, or put them where ASP.NET looks by default.
This doesn't seem to work in Web Forms. Does anyone know how?
EDIT: EPiServer has an .ascx file which it uses to render an XForm with. I want to tell ASP.NET to use my .ascx file instead. To do this I need to tell ASP.NET to look for my .ascx file, e.g. by telling the ASP.NET view engine to look for my .ascx in a specific folder, or by placing it somewhere the view engine looks by default.
How do I do this?
If you want to replace it everywhere just replace the ascx file. Otherwise I am afraid the answer is no. Web Forms does not look for alternative locations for files by default as controls are usually specified using the full path or the class name. What you want to do would be equivalent of C# looking for alternative namespaces when it cannot find a class name. There are ways to achieve this behavior in Web Forms like for example Dynamic Data but ascx controls is not this.
If you are using the Property web control to display the value you can create your own custom PropertyControl and register it for your type in the PropertyControlFactory. This way you can control how your property will be rendered.
While this doesn't allow you to point out your .ascx directly, you can load it in your server control if you prefer that.
For code examples and a great summary of this (and some other) ways of customizing property rendering in EPiServer, see Mathias Kunto's blog post at http://blog.mathiaskunto.com/2012/03/05/being-friends-with-the-propertycontrolclassfactory-or-101-ways-to-change-episerver-built-in-property-appearances/.
I've a question related to dynamic code generation (html) with C# based on a template. The user sets all options (e.g. whether or not a <div> should be displayed, whether or not an image in the template should change by a specific date,...) and provides the content (text, images) needed for code generation. The generated code is needed for a WIFI hotspot site.
The template consists of HTML, CSS and JavaScript which gets extended and modified by the user-defined settings at runtime. I also think of providing "meta settings" in the template to define, whether or not some options CAN be disabled set or not.
My major problem:
How to define the template to dynamically extend the template code easily? For example, if a user option is enabled at runtime, I'm in need to add JavaScript code on top and HTML code below another (specific) place. Another example is to hide content (a defined ) when another option is disabled...
I'm not sure what's the best practice to handle that requirement. Maybe HTML elements with id attribute can help eliminate some of the problems. But with JavaScript I'm not sure. Maybe the template needs to be a XML which creates the final HTML at runtime? Any idea?
Has anyone an idea how to handle that?
UPDATE/INFO:
The project is written in pure C# - without any ASP.NET. It is a desktop project working with HTML files and GENERATING HTML files (as an output).
I suppose you can use ASP.NET MVC Razor view engine to render an html to a file with the help of this question. With Razor you will get the support of dynamic view (aka template) changes, rich template syntax etc. Everything you can do when create a web site. Just render the html to a file not a response body.
There are plenty of Wordpress template out there, most of them are well designed.
I like to know, is there a way to easy to use Wordpress template in c# project.
Is there any out-of-the-box solution?
Just grab a copy of the output HTML and the CSS of the WP site and apply/build your ASP.NET site around it. This is straightforward in itself. Where most people get confused is when there's a master page in the mix in ASPNET; however, this is not a problem. Just start (with the HTML produced by the WP site) by creating the main divs working from the outside-in, using the master page and then content areas in your pages. Master page(s) will generally contain display elements common to all or a subset of pages.
No, there is nothing "out-of-the-box".
You will need to write your own converter if you wish to do this, though translating a single page shouldn't be too difficult.
I have to implement file upload progress bar in one of my project.But,having searched a lot , i am not able to find how to find bytes of file uploaded.
Can someone tell me how to find bytes of file uploaded in ASP.NET?
You might need to use some third party upload control. Plupload is a nice one you may take a look at.
Try this:
http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/07/aspnet_file_upload_with_realti_1.html
jQueryFileUpload works well for me, I have some ASP.Net bindings at https://github.com/i-e-b/jQueryFileUpload.Net
The jquery plugin Uploadify is really good, it has built in progress bars for multiple files and has ability to get progress feedback for custom progress bars.
Note: Is only possible to get this type of feedback using Flash (and/or Silverlight I believe) without going a heavier route like ActiveX/Java.
Update:
This is also possible using plain html and javascript, see this jquery plugin for an example:
http://jquery.malsup.com/form/
For asp.net mvc also have a look at this: Can i upload file in jquery dialog in asp.net mvc
i had this issue in our mvc project a month or two ago. after fiddling around on the internet and trying a few different implementations, i ended up on the one suggest by steve sanderson using swfupload. http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2008/11/24/jquery-ajax-uploader-plugin-with-progress-bar/
it will work just fine in 90% of browsers and for the few that don't support flash it falls back nicely. just copy the code and dump it into your project, it worked just fine in our MVC2 project.
Is it the standard upload control with ASP?