Audio Video Modules for ASP.NET Community Starter Kit : Part III

Implement the page for listing all section contents.

We use this page to display all contents of an audio-video section. We have create minimum a skin and the control class to control the skin.

Skin:
\Communities\Common\Themes\Default\Skins\ContentSkins \AudioVideos_AudioVideoSection.ascx

Control class : The "AudioVideoSection" class , which is derived from the "ContentListPage" class, acts as code-behind for this particular skin. (see figure 6). Note that we have initialized the inherited attributes _skinFileName and _getContentItems. From now, the " ContentListPage" class and its ancestor "SkinnedCommunityControle" class will take over most burden jobs such like populating ContentListPage.

ContentList from us. We must only reuse or create custom controls which can be embedded as ItemTemplate in the "ContentList" instance.

namespace ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities.AudioVideos
{
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities;
//*********************************************************************
//
// AudioVideoSection Class
//
// Represents the default page for the Audio-Video section. This class
// displays a list of audio video listings.
//
// _skinFileName = the name of the skin to use for this section
//
// _getContentItems = the name of the method that retrieves the list of content items
//
//*********************************************************************
public class AudioVideoSection : ContentListPage
{
string _skinFileName = "AudioVideos_AudioVideoSection.ascx";
GetContentItemsDelegate _getContentItems = new GetContentItemsDelegate
AudioVideoUtility.GetAllAudioVideos);
//*********************************************************************
//
// AudioVideoSection Constructor
//
// Assigns skin and contentItems method to base ContentListPage class
//
//*********************************************************************
public AudioVideoSection() : base()
{
SkinFileName = _skinFileName;
GetContentItems = _getContentItems;
}
}
}

Figure 6 (The AudioVideoSection class)

We have created "ItemAVTitle" class to represent the title of an Audio-Video content. It will display the title of a particular content and a image link to represent the type of the content(Audio or Video).

namespace ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities
{
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities.Books;
//*********************************************************************
//
// ItemAVTitle Class
//
// Represents a audiovideo Title in a ContentList template
//
//*********************************************************************
public class ItemAVTitle : WebControl
{
private string _externalIconsrc="~/Communities/Common/Images/Video.gif";
//*********************************************************************
//
// ItemLinkTitle Constructor
//
// Assign a default css style (the user can override)
//
//*********************************************************************
public ItemAVTitle()
{
CssClass = "itemLinkTitle";
EnableViewState = false;
}
//*********************************************************************
//
// ExternalIconSrc Property
//
// Allows users to assign a custom icon for external links
//
//*********************************************************************
public string ExternalIconSrc
{
get { return _externalIconSrc; }
set { _externalIconSrc = value; }
}
//*********************************************************************
//
// ContentPageID Property
//
// Represents the contentpageID of the item
//
//*********************************************************************
public int ContentPageID
{
get
{
if (ViewState["ContentPageID"] == null)
return -1;
else
return (int)ViewState["ContentPageID"];
}
set
{
ViewState["ContentPageID"] = value;
}
}
//*********************************************************************
//
//Title Property
//
// Represents the Title of the item
//
//*********************************************************************
public string Title
{
get
{
if (ViewState["Title"] == null)
return String.Empty;
else
return (string)ViewState["Title"];
}
set
{
ViewState["Title"] = value;
//*********************************************************************
//
// OnDataBinding Method
//
// Get the title from the container's DataItem property
//
//*********************************************************************
override protected void OnDataBinding(EventArgs e)
{
ContentItem item;
if (NamingContainer is ContentItem)
item = (ContentItem)NamingContainer;
else
item = (ContentItem)NamingContainer.NamingContainer;
AudioVideoInfo objAVInfo = (AudioVideoInfo)item.DataItem;
ContentPageID = objAVInfo.ContentPageID;
Title=objAVInfo.Title;
// Fix the icon depend from the content
if(objAVInfo.Video!=true)
{
_externalIconsrc="~/Communities/Common/Images/Audio.gif";
}
}
/// <summary>
/// compose the visual representation
/// </summary>
override protected void CreateChildControls()
{
// Image Link
HyperLink hlImgBroadcast = new HyperLink();
hlImgBroadcast.ImageUrl=Page.ResolveUrl(_externalIconSrc);
hlImgBroadcast.Text=Title;
string strRedirect=CommunityGlobals.CalculatePath(String.Format"{0}.aspx",ContentPageID));
hlImgBroadcast.NavigateUrl=strRedirect;
this.Controls.Add(hlImgBroadcast);
// gap
LiteralControl lControl=new LiteralControl(" ");
this.Controls.Add(lControl);
// Text Link
HyperLink hlBroadcast = new HyperLink();
hlBroadcast.Text=Title;
hlBroadcast.NavigateUrl=strRedirect;
this.Controls.Add(hlBroadcast);
}
}
}
}

Figure 7

Additionally, we have created an another custom control "AudioVideoEditControl" (figure 7) which is used to navigate to other related pages from section page.

using System.ComponentModel;
namespace ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities
{
using System;
[Designer(typeof(ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities.CommunityDesigner))]
public class AudioVideoEditContent : EditContent
{
/// <summary>
/// This class is used to as Navigator
/// and this control is embedded in AudioVideoSecton.ascx
/// </summary>
public AudioVideoEditContent()
{
if (Context != null)
{
PageInfo _pageInfo = (PageInfo)Context.Items["PageInfo"];
int contentPageID = _pageInfo.ID;
AddUrl = "AudioVideos_AddAudioVideo.aspx";
EditUrl = String.Format("AudioVideos_EditAudioVideo.aspx?id={0}", contentPageID);
DeleteUrl = String.Format("ContentPages_DeleteContentPage.aspx?id={0}", contentPageID);
MoveUrl = String.Format("ContentPages_MoveContentPage.aspx?id={0}",
ontentPageID);
CommentUrl = String.Format("Comments_AddComment.aspx?id={0}", contentPageID);
ModerateUrl = "Moderation_ModerateSection.aspx";
}
}
}
}

Figure 7

Finally , we must register this page as section page using the following the statement

/* registers AudioVideoSection as section PageType*/
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Community_PageTypes WHERE pageType_Name='AudioVideoSection')
BEGIN
INSERT INTO Community_PageTypes
(
pageType_Name,
pageType_Description,
pageType_PageContent,
pageType_isSectionType
)
VALUES
(
'AudioVideoSection',
'Contains AudioVideo listings',
'ASPNET.StarterKit.Communities.AudioVideos.AudioVideoSection',
1
)
END
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