Hi,

I want to retreive a code of a form from a db, then ad it to a string in aspx page and render it all as an aspx page. Is that possible?

Hello, usualy what we do is have a template which is an aspx page, which contains dynamic data to be loaded from DB. This is a better approach.

Regards.

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Bilal Hadiar, MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Telerik MVP

Well, the reason for this is that I am working in a multilanguage environment, so I do not want to translate or store just fragments of a form, I want to store it as a whole. The from is a mix of server controls and text.

What would you suggest in this case?

Well, you can have the same server controls for all the languages, and only change the data in those controls, which will be stored in the DB, right ?

regards.

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Bilal Hadiar, MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Telerik MVP

Exactly, but what about the text near/around the server control(s)?

Change it all to labels or literals.

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Picky

What would that do??

Hello, all the text you have around the server controls, you can have literals,labels,spans, ....
And the text by which these Text Controls are to be populated are stored in DB.

For example:

<asp:Label id="Name" ..../>

Then, the label would get its value from the DB, because the name can be in English, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, .....

So what you do is access the database and get the name in any language you want, and then

Name.Text = "value from DB";

Is this fine ?

regards.

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Bilal Hadiar, MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Telerik MVP

Hi,

That is something that I do not want to do. Imagine that you have to 20 different labels. That means that you have to store 20 values in a db and if you multiply it by a number of languages you ger 60 values for 3 languages. It is difficult to keep track of all these values. What I would like to do is store entire form or just a table that contains all the labels and controls as a text in db as 1 values. The problem is how to render that 1 value as an aspx page!

Hello, if you have the code inside a Db, then you need to create a new file name it "page1.aspx", and then add the code you want to it. This way a new aspx page is being created. One thing here is that you will be using Code-Inline and not code-behind.

Regards.

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Bilal Hadiar, MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Telerik MVP

And it will be very slow the first time.

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Picky

How would I specify Code-Inline and not code-behind?

You can specify that in the heading of the page !!!

Regards.

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Bilal Hadiar, MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Telerik MVP

::It is difficult to keep track of all these values.

Actually, consolidating all application text into a single db table makes it easy to keep track of. I have tables that contains hundreds of text elements.

our Text table has a column per language with a single key field. To see what translation are done and which arent, i need to look in only one table.

Non-developers can have access to the table to enter translations without getting me involved at all.

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If you are going to have 60 languages, you are going to have to do some work to make this happen. Storing language specific string values in a text file or db and populating templates requires planning and setup but will be infinitely easier to maintain. Storing entire pages for 60 languages will be a maintenance nightmare. If you are looking only at the short term, you (or whomever follows you) will not be happy later on.

Thanks guys for your opinion. Currently I have something like mbanavige mentioned, but for people who translate this text it is kind of difficult to get a large picture of how entire text or form will lool like i.e. they have to translate chunks of texts and sometimes it turns out to be dumb translation that does not fit into the rest of the text.

I was considering to have some kind of a preview to help them to get an idea of what are they translating.

I have come across microsoft .mspx extension. Can someone explaing more about .mspx?

Thanx

http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/bkst_column_46.mspx

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Thanx, this is an interesting article.

I am trying to figure it out how are they using xml schema and xml template to generate a page.

I understand they are storing id's or names of .net controls , user controls etc. in xml files and db but I am not sure how this controls are called to form a web page../

You might do better to read about Master Pages.
These are coming in ASP.NET 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/aspnet-masterpages.asp

The docs i read seem to indicate that .master is the file extension of a master page, but i have a suspicion that .mspx is using the same technology.

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..mspx has been around since the beginning of ASP.NET, at least from what I have noticed.

I used to think "mobile" whenever I saw the m, but I just stopped thinking about it.

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Picky