Tag Archives: Usercontrol

Sitecore locating sublayouts on your webpage

Posted on September 11, 2015 by briancaos

This is a followup from the post, Get Sitecore placeholders and rendering hierarchy from a Sitecore item, where I adress one of the difficulties when working with pages in Sitecore, that they tend to get very complex as one page may … Continue reading →

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Creating a tree like left menu in Sitecore using UserControls and C#

Posted on August 3, 2011 by briancaos

This post is a follow-up on the article on how to create a tree like left menu in Sitecore using XSLT. This time I will not use XSLT to create my left menu, but instead I will use C# and … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Language selector – creating a country selector

Posted on June 10, 2011 by briancaos

This is a little nifty thing I developed recently. I developed a small UserControl that displays all the flags from the languages in Sitecore, enabling me to create a list of clickable flags that will make the website switch language. … Continue reading →

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Using UserControls instead of XSLT in Sitecore projects

Posted on January 25, 2011 by briancaos

The use of XSLT in Sitecore have been around since Sitecore 4. XSLT’s are fast to write and easy to deploy: All you need to update an XSLT is to copy a new file to your web server. The nature … Continue reading →

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Get the Sitecore Sublayout from your .aspx page (Usercontrol)

Posted on May 4, 2010 by briancaos

How do you get the Sitecore Sublayout from a Usercontrol? A Sitecore Sublayout (Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls.Sublayout) is a container for your Usercontrol (.ascx) page. Therefore the Sublayout is retrieved by typecasting the parent to a Sublayout: Having the Sublayout in hand enables … Continue reading →

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