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Can I publish an ASPX page and its code-behind file from Tridion?

I have developed an ASP.NET chat application. Now I want some integration with my Tridion page. To do so I need some code behind file for the published page. And one more issue suppose I want to add a button in my page with its click event. How can I achieve that? what I've done :

<%@ Page language="c#" Inherits="SDLchat.ChatWin" CodeFile="ChatWin.aspx.cs" %>
<%@ Register src="ChatLogin.ascx" TagName="c2" TagPrefix="uc2" %>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >

<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <title>ChatWin</title>
</HEAD>
<body>
    <form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
        <asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server">
            <uc2:c2 ID="log2" runat="server" />
        </asp:Panel>

        <asp:Panel ID="Panel2" runat="server" Visible="False">
            <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server"
                 onclick="LinkButton1_Click">Change Room</asp:LinkButton>
        </asp:Panel>
    </form>
</body>
</HTML>

This my .net appliction files

This is my ASP.NET web app that I want to migrate in Tridion. Please help

Solution

  • So you have two files for every page in this application:

    1. the ASPX file that contains the markup
    2. the CS file that contains the code

    Since Tridion publishing is based on one-file-per-page, you can get both of these files published from Tridion by creating two separate pages for them. Alternatively you can choose to just publish the ASPX from Tridion and deploy the CS file when you deploy the web application to IIS.

    I'd suggest putting the ASPX contents into a DWT Template Building Block in Tridion and then using that one as the only Building Block in a Compound Page Template.

    If you decide to also publish the code-behind CS file from Tridion, create a separate DWT for it, paste the code in there and create a separate Compound Page Template for it.

    On your second question about a PageLoad event: Tridion will just publish the files that you put in it in this case. It has nothing to do with the ASP.NET code you put in those files. If the ASP.NET page-load event works outside of Tridion, it'll work when you publish the same files from Tridion.