hello, i have created a usercontrol that resides within one of my templates.

i deployed a compiled web usercontrol dll to the bin directory and the .ascx file to usercontrols directory.

the usercontrol renders but is not taking the parameters (public properties of the usercontrol).

in macro properties i have selected .net usercontrol and selected the control which i deployed - i browsed properties from the button and it read them succesfully, so I save them.

then i placed it in the template like below;



my usercontrol then should display the values but it doesn't
also the properties will be read from the umbraco page fields - but i was simplifying the tests.

will this be the correct way to gather the umbraco data to supply to my usercontrol



I have been following the example from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Umbraco/Samples_and_Articles/Dot_Net_Controls/Using_Dot_NET_Controls_With_Umbraco

any help would be muchly appreciated. This is killing me :P

So really quickly this is what your code should look like for your macro in your template.



:)

no, but you can use the api and umbraco library to obtain the information.

Reference the umbraco dll in your user control, and I think the command is umbraco.library.GetCurrentMember(), which will likely returns you the xpathnodeiterator of the member. You can then read the xml node like you would a content node. > @id would be the id of the current member.

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