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Justin, 7/21/2008 12:35:37 AM
Hi all,
I'm hoping for a pointer on where to start.  The developer guide has a section that seems just like what I need to do but I'm not super familiar with sitefinity or asp.net yet to put it all together.  here's what I want to do:

Our site layout has a sidebar on the right.  The CSS template we are using has a class called "sidebox" which when applied to a div tag which creates a simple gray box container.  Users can drop a Generic Content control onto the sidebar but then they would need to go into HTML view and create a div wrapper around their content with the class="sidebox" element in order to get the gray box around their text.  Not all text in the sidebar would be in a sidebox.  So I thought it would be a good user experience to wrap the Generic Content control in a customer user control which simply puts the div with the sidebox class around that instance of the Generic Content control.

I followed, best I could, the example in the user guide, but the result is that I cannot edit the contents of the Generic Content but can only set the properties for it.

Is this the best approach to do what I'm considering here?  It's on v 3.2 + Sp2 + hotfix.  If there are any examples of this sort of thing please let me know.

Thanks!
Justin
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, 7/21/2008 10:35:05 AM
Hello Justin,

I have attached an example that demonstrates how to achieve the required functionality. Also, you can find a detailed explanation about wrapping GenericContent control in a user control in the Developer Manual.

Do let us know if this helps.

Sincerely yours,
Pepi
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Justin, 7/21/2008 10:03:35 PM
Thanks Pepi.  It works great.

I had followed the instructions in the Developer Guide (the same link you sent) but the control I made didn't work.  I compared to your code and saw that I missed the IContentContainer inheritance on the class.

Thanks for the help!!
Justin

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