How do you create an ASP.Net custom row thingey?

Great news! My row controls now run from a SQL Database, and are dynamically created. Oh, and they work! :D Also, originally, I was going to have a gallery page for each item, but then I found a better way of doing things. This also reduced the amount of maintenance to upload new sketches. Now I just need to design the look & feel.. and, of course, the content of the page.
 
Congratulations... So, are you sure your host will have a SQL Server running for you? Or any database at all? Remember, XML is a viable alternative... ;)
 
Jip. I'm sure. I need to google for a lot of tips on stylesheets and stuff. Sigh...
 
foozball3000 said:
Great news! My row controls now run from a SQL Database, and are dynamically created. Oh, and they work! :D Also, originally, I was going to have a gallery page for each item, but then I found a better way of doing things. This also reduced the amount of maintenance to upload new sketches. Now I just need to design the look & feel.. and, of course, the content of the page.
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/gives the cake award :D
 
Necuno said:
/gives the cake award :D
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lol.

I'm still having trouble with my stylesheets. But I guess that it's now a matter of random luck and practice. Oh well, it keeps me out of trouble.

The only thing that bugs me is that I just can't get my css backgroud images to work. :confused:
 
Make sure the url of the background image points to the correct location, relative to where the CSS file is located...
 
Right! I've got a completely new design... As you'll hopefully see by the end of the week.
My Image Gallery works (Well, not in chrome, only in IE and FF). I have no idea what to put on the home page, or well... any of the other pages. So, for now they'll just get an "Under Construction image.

Here's some of the features:
And awesome, dynamically created menu bar.
An Image gallery that allows you to zoom into the details of my sketches.
The Image gallery is dynamically created. I just upload the images, and add a data row into its table.

There's still a lot of work to do, but at least I'm getting somewhere. :D
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Care to share the WIP? :p
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That's the plan.. but I doubt if I'll have time to upload it before Friday.

The Row Items that I use for each Sub gallery needs some serious redesign, and I don't have the time to look around for ideas. But, for now each row will just have an Image-button and a header.
 
Coding Master FarligOpptreden,
How do I go about the idea of just uploading a zip file to the server, and it automatically moves the new folders and files into place, and adds the needed data to my SQL Tables?
 
Depends on how you're uploading and to which server... An easy option would be to build your own "content updater" for your site, so that you can just upload a ZIP file, it extracts the contents in the web application's root folder and executes any .sql files in a specific folder. So you'll have to build that functionality in, depending on your own spec. Have a look at the SharpZipLib (.NET ZIP Library) to facilitate the unzipping on C# side. It really is very easy to use and hellishly useful.

EDIT: Make sure that your web host allows for content uploading through a web interface as well. Some hosts only allow FTP / Admin panel.
 
I'll send them a mail. They should at least know if what I'm planning on doing will work. :)
Thanks again.
 
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