Right now I'm trying to find away to migrate a number of configurable User Controls (.ascx/.ascx.cs) to having base clases inheriting from WebPart.

Now, I am aware that it is possible to use User Controls directly in a Web Zone and that they become GenericWebParts. However, I wanted to see if it was possible to use the PropertyGridEditPart to edit and configure the custom properties associated with the User Controls. I've been able to get the PropertyGridEditPart to work as has been documented when I made an example Web Control Library and inherited the custom control from WebPart and added some test custom properties (with the WebBrowsable, and Personalizable attributes). Is this possible to get working with a User Control and Generic Web Part? Just implement IWebPart?

What confuses me, with my limited understanding of the .Net framework, is if it is possible to use the .ascx UserControls and still inherit from WebPart?

Doesn't appear so. Looking at the ancestor classes of the WebPart, there is WebControl and Control. But I guess to use the .ascx, it would be necessary to have the UserControl as a base class?

I'd prefer not to override the Render method because I have many User Controls with hundreds of lines of html in the .ascx.

Sorry if this isn't clear, I'm just trying to find what limitations I have to work with or around to create the simplest transition available.

Thanks.

(I don't know I just think it would be convenient to have a .aswx or some other html template file associated with webparts. )

User Controls can use the WebBrowsable and Personalizable attributes.

User Control can't inherit the WebPart class, use the IWebPart interface instead.

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