Question

I usually do this to load a web user control from the layouts directory.

protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
     try
     {

        SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
        {
           base.CreateChildControls();
           string strControlReference = "/_layouts/Controls/MyCustomControl.ascx";

           //instantiate the user control
           MyCustomControl ucControl = (MyCustomControl)Page.LoadControl(strControlReference);

           //add the control to webpart
           this.Controls.Add(ucControl);
        });
     }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
        Common.WriteLogEvent(ex);
     }

}

Now what I wanted to do is, I have a web form “_/layouts/Page/MyPage.aspx” file under the layouts folder and I wanted to load this file instead of loading a typical ascx file on the webpart page.

Would it be possible? I would like to know how. Thank you.

Answer 1

You could add an <IFRAME> to the webpart and load the page into that.

Or create the IFRAME programmatically and add it in the same way you add the user controls:

var pageUrl = .....; // URL to your page
var literal = new Literal();
literal.Text = string.Format("<iframe src='{0}'></iframe>", pageUrl);
this.Controls.Add(literal);