am using IE TabStrip Control with MultiPage !!

Control are awesome....

But here are couple of quick questions ?

1) Will this control work on Other Browsers like Netscape etc ?

2) I have 4 Tab in TabStrip and I have MultiPage - PageView structure with it. The problem I am seeing is I see all the Design code in .aspx file so my .aspx file is too large as I have many panels etc and as a result I have large .aspx.cs file.


<IEWC:TABSTRIP ID="SupportTab" RUNAT="server" TARGETID="SupportMultiPage">
<IEWC:TAB TEXT="Log"></IEWC:TAB>
<IEWC:TAB TEXT="KnowledgeBase"></IEWC:TAB>
<IEWC:TAB TEXT="Reports"></IEWC:TAB>
<IEWC:TAB TEXT="Admin"></IEWC:TAB>
</IEWC:TABSTRIP>
<IEWC:MULTIPAGE ID="SupportMultiPage" RUNAT="Server">
<IEWC:PAGEVIEW ID="Log">
<ASP:PANEL ID="1"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="2"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="3"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="4"></ASP:PANEL>
</IEWC:PAGEVIEW>
<IEWC:PAGEVIEW ID="KB">
</IEWC:PAGEVIEW>
<IEWC:PAGEVIEW ID="Reports">
<ASP:PANEL ID="ReportPanel"></ASP:PANEL>
</IEWC:PAGEVIEW>
<IEWC:PAGEVIEW ID="Admin">
<ASP:PANEL ID="1"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="2"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="3"></ASP:PANEL>
<ASP:PANEL ID="4"></ASP:PANEL>
</IEWC:PAGEVIEW>
</IEWC:MULTIPAGE>

So as you see I have 4 Tabs with MultiPage. Few MultuPage has multiple panels and panels has texboxes, dropdown list, Datagrid etc...

As a result my .aspx file and .aspc.cs file is becoming too large. And If I add one more Tab, it will still grow large..

Is there anyway I can make it more organize/managable code ??

I initially used CSS and wrote my own code for TabStrip with some article help. In that case, I had different .aspx pages for different Tabs.

Can I achieve similar thing with MultiPage and TabStrip ??

One option is to put the code for each pageview into a separate user control.

Gerry

So you mean, have different user control file for eacg pageview and load user control file when Tabs are selected ??

How do I load user control file in PageView with appropriate Tab Selected ??

you can use the "selectedIndex" attribute of the TabStrip control.

Actually, I was thinking you do this from server side code. For example, given a multi-page control called mp1, do something like this:

Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.PageView pv = new Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.PageView();
MyUserControl ucx = (MyUserControl)LoadControl("../UserControls/MyUserControl.ascx");
ucx.ID = "ucxXXX";
....
pv.Controls.Add(ucx);
mp1.Controls.Add(pv);

etc.

Gerry