Edit, Insert, Update mode for ASP.NET user control

Question

I am looking for the best way to template a user control, so that when I specify a mode say readonly, edit, update, insert then the user control changes its mode correspondingly.

I have identified some methods and what I am looking for is a much elegant solution.

• Create a form view in the page and specify insert, edit template as separate user control and load accordingly.

• Create a form view inside user control and specify separate controls for edit/ insert for the records.

• Find a way to template the user control so that when I specify the mode, when init ing a user control it will load appropriately into the page.

  <asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
    <asp:FormView  DefaultMode="ReadOnly" ID="FormView1" runat="server"> 
      <ItemTemplate>
      <name:user ID="User1" Visible="true"  runat="server" />
      </ItemTemplate>
      <EditItemTemplate>
       <name:user ID="User2" Visible="true"  runat="server" />
      </EditItemTemplate>
  </asp:FormView>
  

Please share your views on how this is done in normal scenarios; with just one user control and user control changing state based on Mode( a single user control and not 3 user controls for functions).

Answer 1

Try to use MultiView ASP.NET control. You can simply set up different views of your content and switch between these views whenever you like.

Here is some tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5w7sgojm0