Creating the template of the designer view

To create the template of the designer view, perform the following:

1. In the context menu of the Designer » Views folder, click Add » New Item...

   NOTE: Visual Studio does not provide a dialog option to directly create a user control. You must create a file of another type and change its extension.

2. In the left pane, select Visual C# Items » Code.

3. Click Class and in the Name input field, enter DatePickerDesignerView.

4. From the context menu of DatePickerDesignerView.cs, click Rename.

5. Change the extension to .ascx.

6. Open the newly created file and clear its content.

7. Define the markup by pasting the following code:

   <%@ Control Language="C#" %>

   <%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

    

   <telerik:RadDatePicker runat="server" ID="minimumDate" />

   <telerik:RadDatePicker runat="server" ID="maximumDate" />

8. Save the file.

9. In the Properties pane of the DatePickerDesignerView.ascx file, change the Build Action to Embedded Resource.

In the markup, first, you register the necessary assemblies, so that they can be used in the template. Then, you define two controls of typeRadDatePicker that are used to limit the date range.

Next, you must reference the template in the designer view. For more information, see Referencing the template in the designer view.