BehaviorEditorPart Class
Provides an editor control that enables end users to edit several user interface (UI) properties on an associated WebPart control. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
System.Web.UI::Control
System.Web.UI.WebControls::WebControl
System.Web.UI.WebControls::Panel
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts::Part
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts::EditorPart
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts::BehaviorEditorPart
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | BehaviorEditorPart() | Creates a new instance of the class. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | AccessKey | Gets or sets the access key that allows you to quickly navigate to the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory | Gets or sets the application-relative virtual directory of the Page or UserControl object that contains this control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Attributes | Gets the collection of arbitrary attributes (for rendering only) that do not correspond to properties on the control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| BackColor | Gets or sets the background color of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| BackImageUrl | Gets or sets the URL of the background image for the panel control.(Inherited from Panel.) |
| BindingContainer | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets the control that contains this control's data binding.(Inherited from Control.) |
| BorderColor | Gets or sets the border color of the Web control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| BorderStyle | Gets or sets the border style of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| BorderWidth | Gets or sets the border width of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| ChromeState | Gets or sets whether a part control is in a minimized or normal state.(Inherited from Part.) |
| ChromeType | Gets or sets the type of border that frames a Web Parts control.(Inherited from Part.) |
| ClientID | Gets the control ID for HTML markup that is generated by ASP.NET.(Inherited from Control.) |
| ClientIDMode | |
 | Context | Gets the HttpContext object associated with the server control for the current Web request.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Controls | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets a ControlCollection object that contains the child controls for a specified server control in the user interface hierarchy.(Inherited from Part.) |
| ControlStyle | Gets the style of the Web server control. This property is used primarily by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| ControlStyleCreated | Gets a value indicating whether a Style object has been created for the ControlStyle property. This property is primarily used by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| CssClass | Gets or sets the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class rendered by the Web server control on the client.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| DataItemContainer | Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataItemContainer.(Inherited from Control.) |
| DataKeysContainer | Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataKeysControl.(Inherited from Control.) |
| DefaultButton | Gets or sets the ID of the default button on the control.(Overrides Panel::DefaultButton.) |
| Description | Gets or sets a brief phrase that summarizes what the part control does, for use in ToolTips and catalogs of part controls.(Inherited from Part.) |
| DesignMode | Gets a value indicating whether a control is being used on a design surface.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Direction | |
| Display | Gets a value that indicates whether a control should be displayed when its associated WebPart control is in edit mode.(Overrides EditorPart::Display.) |
| DisplayTitle | Gets a string that contains the title text displayed in the title bar of an EditorPart control.(Inherited from EditorPart.) |
| Enabled | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Web server control is enabled.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| EnableTheming | Gets or sets a value indicating whether themes apply to this control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| EnableViewState | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the server control persists its view state, and the view state of any child controls it contains, to the requesting client.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Font | Gets the font properties associated with the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| ForeColor | Gets or sets the foreground color (typically the color of the text) of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| GroupingText | Gets or sets the caption for the group of controls that is contained in the panel control.(Inherited from Panel.) |
| HasAttributes | Gets a value indicating whether the control has attributes set.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| Height | Gets or sets the height of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| HorizontalAlign | Gets or sets the horizontal alignment of the contents within the panel.(Inherited from Panel.) |
| ID | Gets or sets the programmatic identifier assigned to the server control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| IsChildControlStateCleared | Gets a value indicating whether controls contained within this control have control state.(Inherited from Control.) |
| IsEnabled | Gets a value indicating whether the control is enabled.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| IsViewStateEnabled | Gets a value indicating whether view state is enabled for this control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| NamingContainer | Gets a reference to the server control's naming container, which creates a unique namespace for differentiating between server controls with the same Control::ID property value.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Page | |
| Parent | Gets a reference to the server control's parent control in the page control hierarchy.(Inherited from Control.) |
| RenderingCompatibility | Gets a value that specifies the ASP.NET version that rendered HTML will be compatible with.(Inherited from Control.) |
| ScrollBars | |
| Site | Gets information about the container that hosts the current control when rendered on a design surface.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SkinID | Gets or sets the skin to apply to the control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| Style | Gets a collection of text attributes that will be rendered as a style attribute on the outer tag of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| SupportsDisabledAttribute | |
| TabIndex | Gets or sets the tab index of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| TemplateControl | Gets or sets a reference to the template that contains this control. (Inherited from Control.) |
| TemplateSourceDirectory | Gets the virtual directory of the Page or UserControl that contains the current server control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Title | Gets or sets a title for the editor control.(Overrides Part::Title.) |
| ToolTip | Gets or sets the text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| UniqueID | Gets the unique, hierarchically qualified identifier for the server control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| ValidateRequestMode | Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control checks client input from the browser for potentially dangerous values.(Inherited from Control.) |
| ViewStateMode | Gets or sets the view-state mode of this control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Visible | Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a server control is rendered as UI on the page.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Width | Gets or sets the width of the Web server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| Wrap | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the content wraps within the panel.(Inherited from Panel.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | AddedControl(Control^, Int32) | |
| ApplyChanges() | Saves the values from a BehaviorEditorPart control to the corresponding properties in the associated WebPart control.(Overrides EditorPart::ApplyChanges().) |
| ApplyStyle(Style^) | Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, overwriting any existing style elements of the control. This method is primarily used by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| ApplyStyleSheetSkin(Page^) | Applies the style properties defined in the page style sheet to the control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| CopyBaseAttributes(WebControl^) | Copies the properties not encapsulated by the Style object from the specified Web server control to the Web server control that this method is called from. This method is used primarily by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| CreateChildControls() | Called by the ASP.NET page framework to notify server controls that use composition-based implementation to create any child controls they contain in preparation for posting back or rendering.(Inherited from Control.) |
| DataBind() | Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child controls.(Inherited from Part.) |
| Dispose() | Enables a server control to perform final clean up before it is released from memory.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Equals(Object^) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
| FindControl(String^) | Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id parameter.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Focus() | Sets input focus to a control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| GetHashCode() | Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetRouteUrl(Object^) | Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters.(Inherited from Control.) |
| GetRouteUrl(RouteValueDictionary^) | Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters.(Inherited from Control.) |
| GetRouteUrl(String^, Object^) | Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name.(Inherited from Control.) |
| GetRouteUrl(String^, RouteValueDictionary^) | Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name.(Inherited from Control.) |
| GetType() | |
| GetUniqueIDRelativeTo(Control^) | |
| HasControls() | Determines if the server control contains any child controls.(Inherited from Control.) |
| LoadControlState(Object^) | Restores control-state information from a previous page request that was saved by the SaveControlState method.(Inherited from Control.) |
| MapPathSecure(String^) | Retrieves the physical path that a virtual path, either absolute or relative, maps to.(Inherited from Control.) |
| MergeStyle(Style^) | Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, but will not overwrite any existing style elements of the control. This method is used primarily by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| OnInit(EventArgs^) | |
| OnLoad(EventArgs^) | |
| OnPreRender(EventArgs^) | Raises the PreRender event. (Inherited from EditorPart.) |
| OnUnload(EventArgs^) | |
| OpenFile(String^) | |
| RemovedControl(Control^) | |
| Render(HtmlTextWriter^) | Renders the control to the specified HTML writer.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriter^) | |
| RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter^) | Outputs the content of a server control's children to a provided HtmlTextWriter object, which writes the content to be rendered on the client.(Inherited from Control.) |
| RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter^) | Renders the contents of the control to the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter^) | Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object and stores tracing information about the control if tracing is enabled.(Inherited from Control.) |
| RenderEndTag(HtmlTextWriter^) | |
| ResolveClientUrl(String^) | Gets a URL that can be used by the browser.(Inherited from Control.) |
| ResolveUrl(String^) | Converts a URL into one that is usable on the requesting client.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SaveControlState() | Saves any server control state changes that have occurred since the time the page was posted back to the server.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SetRenderMethodDelegate(RenderMethod^) | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Assigns an event handler delegate to render the server control and its content into its parent control.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SetTraceData(Object^, Object^) | Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the trace data key and the trace data value.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SetTraceData(Object^, Object^, Object^) | Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the traced object, the trace data key, and the trace data value.(Inherited from Control.) |
| SyncChanges() | Retrieves the property values from a WebPart control and assigns them to the associated BehaviorEditorPart control.(Overrides EditorPart::SyncChanges().) |
| ToString() | Returns a string that represents the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | DataBinding | Occurs when the server control binds to a data source.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Disposed | Occurs when a server control is released from memory, which is the last stage of the server control lifecycle when an ASP.NET page is requested.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Init | Occurs when the server control is initialized, which is the first step in its lifecycle.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Load | |
| PreRender | |
| Unload | Occurs when the server control is unloaded from memory.(Inherited from Control.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | IAttributeAccessor::GetAttribute(String^) | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets an attribute of the Web control with the specified name.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| IAttributeAccessor::SetAttribute(String^, String^) | Sets an attribute of the Web control to the specified name and value.(Inherited from WebControl.) |
| IControlDesignerAccessor::GetDesignModeState() | For a description of this member, see IControlDesignerAccessor::GetDesignModeState.(Inherited from Control.) |
| IControlDesignerAccessor::SetDesignModeState(IDictionary^) | For a description of this member, see IControlDesignerAccessor::SetDesignModeState. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IControlDesignerAccessor::SetOwnerControl(Control^) | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. For a description of this member, see IControlDesignerAccessor::SetOwnerControl. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IParserAccessor::AddParsedSubObject(Object^) | For a description of this member, see IParserAccessor::AddParsedSubObject. (Inherited from Control.) |
| ICompositeControlDesignerAccessor::RecreateChildControls() | Allows the developer of a designer for a composite part control to recreate the control's child controls on the design surface.(Inherited from Part.) |
 | IControlBuilderAccessor::ControlBuilder | For a description of this member, see IControlBuilderAccessor::ControlBuilder. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IControlDesignerAccessor::UserData | For a description of this member, see IControlDesignerAccessor::UserData. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IDataBindingsAccessor::DataBindings | For a description of this member, see IDataBindingsAccessor::DataBindings. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IDataBindingsAccessor::HasDataBindings | For a description of this member, see IDataBindingsAccessor::HasDataBindings. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IExpressionsAccessor::Expressions | For a description of this member, see IExpressionsAccessor::Expressions. (Inherited from Control.) |
| IExpressionsAccessor::HasExpressions | For a description of this member, see IExpressionsAccessor::HasExpressions. (Inherited from Control.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| EnableDynamicData(Type^) | Overloaded. Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.(Defined by DataControlExtensions.) |
| EnableDynamicData(Type^, IDictionary<String^, Object^>^) | Overloaded. Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.(Defined by DataControlExtensions.) |
| EnableDynamicData(Type^, Object^) | Overloaded. Enables Dynamic Data behavior for the specified data control.(Defined by DataControlExtensions.) |
| FindDataSourceControl() | Returns the data source that is associated with the data control for the specified control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| FindFieldTemplate(String^) | Returns the field template for the specified column in the specified control's naming container.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| FindMetaTable() | Returns the metatable object for the containing data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| GetDefaultValues() | Overloaded. Gets the collection of the default values for the specified data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| GetMetaTable() | Overloaded. Gets the table metadata for the specified data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| SetMetaTable(MetaTable^) | Overloaded. Sets the table metadata for the specified data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| SetMetaTable(MetaTable^, IDictionary<String^, Object^>^) | Overloaded. Sets the table metadata and default value mapping for the specified data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| SetMetaTable(MetaTable^, Object^) | Overloaded. Sets the table metadata and default value mapping for the specified data control.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
| TryGetMetaTable(MetaTable^%) | Overloaded. Determines whether table metadata is available.(Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.) |
The BehaviorEditorPart class is an editor control that derives from the EditorPart class, and is used to edit properties that affect the behavior of an associated WebPart or GenericWebPart control.
Just as there are tool-oriented zones in the Web Parts control set (for details, see the ToolZone class overview), there are tool-oriented part controls (tool parts), and each tool part must reside in a certain type of tool zone. Tool parts in the Web Parts control set have two distinguishing characteristics:
They are helper controls that enable end users to personalize controls on a Web Parts page.
They are visible only in certain display modes.
The BehaviorEditorPart control is a tool part that becomes visible only when a Web Parts page is in edit mode, and when a specific WebPart control has been selected for editing. The BehaviorEditorPart control, like all other EditorPart controls, resides in an EditorZone control.
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An EditorZone zone can contain only EditorPart controls, and EditorPart controls cannot be placed in any other type of zone. |
The control is not displayed on the page under certain conditions. If the IsShared property value on the WebPart control being edited is true, and the page is in user personalization scope (which is the default), the control is not displayed. For the BehaviorEditorPart control to be displayed in this scenario, typically you would need to follow two steps:
Add an entry to the Web.config file that gives an authorized user permission to edit Web pages in shared personalization scope (which means that the changes the user makes will be visible to all users of the application).
Programmatically change the page from user-level to shared-level personalization scope at run time, for example by using the ToggleScope method.
For an example of how to make the BehaviorEditorPart control visible in a page, see the Example section of this topic. For more information about shared controls and personalization scope, see Web Parts Personalization Overview.
The BehaviorEditorPart class also has an important method, SyncChanges, which it inherits from the EditorPart class and overrides. The method is critical because it enables getting the property values from the WebPart control being edited and assigning them to the fields of the editing control.
In most cases, the BehaviorEditorPart control should be used in page persistence format by declaring an <asp:behavioreditorpart> element inside a <zonetemplate> element, which is in turn contained by an <asp:editorzone> element on a Web page. The BehaviorEditorPart control enables end users to edit the following UI properties of a WebPart control:
To edit other properties and behavior of WebPart controls, you can use the other EditorPart controls supplied with the Web Parts control set. These controls include the LayoutEditorPart, the AppearanceEditorPart, and the PropertyGridEditorPart control. The supplied EditorPart controls should provide most editing features required to edit WebPart controls, but you can also create a custom editor control by inheriting from the EditorPart class. For a code example, see the EditorPart class overview.
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To improve accessibility, the BehaviorEditorPart control is rendered within a <fieldset> element. The <fieldset> element groups the related set of controls used for editing in the BehaviorEditorPart control, and it facilitates tabbed navigation among those controls for both visual user agents (such as ordinary Web browsers) and speech-oriented user agents (such as screen-reading software). |
The markup rendered by default for this control might not conform to accessibility standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) priority 1 guidelines. For details about accessibility support for this control, see ASP.NET Controls and Accessibility.
The following code example demonstrates how to declare a BehaviorEditorPart control on a Web page, and enable it to edit several UI properties of a WebPart control. The code example has four parts:
A user control that enables you to change display modes on a Web Parts page.
A Web page that contains an EditorZone control and a BehaviorEditorPart control, which is used to edit the behavior properties of a BulletedList control.
An entry to make in the Web.config file to give an authorized user permission to edit the page in shared personalization scope.
An explanation of how the example works when you load the page in a browser.
The first part of this code example is the user control that enables users to change display modes on a Web page. For details about display modes and a description of the source code in this control, see Walkthrough: Changing Display Modes on a Web Parts Page. The documentation for this user control explains how to call the ToggleScope method to switch the page into shared mode, which enables the BehaviorEditorPart control to appear.
The second part of the code example is the Web page. It contains a declarative reference to an EditorZone control, with a child <zonetemplate> element that contains declarative references to a BehaviorEditorPart control. Note that the page also contains a BulletedList control that is bound to the Pubs database; because this control resides in a WebPartZone, it is able to function as a WebPart control that can be edited by the BehaviorEditorPart control.
Security Note
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This example has a text box that accepts user input, which is a potential security threat. By default, ASP.NET Web pages validate that user input does not include script or HTML elements. For more information, see Script Exploits Overview. |
The third part of the example is an entry in the Web.config file. You must make an entry like the following in the <webParts> section of the file, to enable an authorized user or set of users to edit the Web page when it is in shared personalization scope. This entry is a critical step; otherwise, the BehaviorEditorPart control will not be visible when you switch the page into edit mode.
<webParts>
<personalization>
<authorization>
<allow users="User_account" roles="admin"
verbs="enterSharedScope"/>
</authorization>
</personalization>
</webParts>
When you load the page in a browser, you can first select the Shared option on the Display Mode drop-down list control. Next, click the drop-down list itself, and select Edit Mode to switch the page into edit mode. You can click the verbs menu (the downward arrow) in the title bar of the Author List WebPart control, and click Edit to begin editing. When the editing UI is visible, you can see the BehaviorEditorPart control, and a button and text box positioned above it. If you make some changes in the editing UI and click the Apply button, you can use the Display Mode drop-down list control to return the page to browse mode and see the full effect of the editing changes.
Available since 2.0
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