WebPartCollection Class
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)
The WebPartCollection class is a read-only collection of controls, typically used by WebPartZoneBase and WebPartManager controls to manage sets of WebPart controls.
A WebPartManager control uses a WebPartCollection object to keep a list of all the WebPart controls on a page, whereas a WebPartZoneBase control uses a WebPartCollection object to track the WebPart controls that it contains.
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| The WebPartCollection collection contains both WebPart controls and other server controls (such as user controls, custom controls, and ASP.NET controls) that are placed in WebPartZoneBase zones and used as part of Web Parts applications. So, for example, if you have a WebPartZone zone in a page, and within it you declare a custom WebPart control and the ASP.NET Calendar control, both controls will be in the WebPartCollection collection referenced by the WebParts property. |
The WebPartCollection object exists so that the Web Parts control set can work with strongly typed collections. Similarly, if you want to perform mass operations on a set of WebPart controls, you can get a reference to a WebPartCollection object using the WebParts property. For example, you might want to loop through all the WebPart controls on a page and change their appearance in some way. Even though the WebPartCollection object is read-only, you can make programmatic changes to the properties of the underlying controls referenced in the collection.
The following code example demonstrates the use of the WebPartCollection object on a Web Parts page. This example has three parts:
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The code for the page in a partial class.
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The Web page that contains the controls.
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A description of how the example works in a browser.
The first part of the code example contains the code for the page in a partial class. Note that the Button1_Click method creates a WebPartCollection object that consists of all the WebPart controls referenced in the WebPartManager.WebParts property, which includes all the WebPart controls on the page. The method iterates through all the controls, and toggles each control's ChromeState property, which determines whether that control is normal or minimized.
Imports System Imports System.Web Imports System.Web.UI Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts Partial Public Class webpartcollectionvb Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim partCollection As WebPartCollection = mgr1.WebParts Dim part As WebPart For Each part In partCollection If part.ChromeState <> PartChromeState.Minimized Then part.ChromeState = PartChromeState.Minimized Else part.ChromeState = PartChromeState.Normal End If Next End Sub Protected Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim partCollection As WebPartCollection = WebPartZone1.WebParts If partCollection(0).Title = "My Link List" Then partCollection(0).Title = "Favorite Links" Else partCollection(0).Title = "My Link List" End If End Sub End Class
The second part of the code example is the Web page that contains the controls. Notice that the controls declared in WebPartZone1 are standard ASP.NET server controls, but because they are wrapped as GenericWebPart controls at run time, and the GenericWebPart class inherits from the WebPart class, the controls are automatically treated as WebPart controls at run time and therefore are included in the WebPartCollection object.
<%@ Page Language="vb" Codefile="webpartcollection.vb" Inherits="webpartcollectionvb" %> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:WebPartManager ID="mgr1" runat="server" /> <asp:WebPartZone ID="WebPartZone1" runat="server"> <ZoneTemplate> <asp:BulletedList ID="BulletedList1" Runat="server" DisplayMode="HyperLink" Title="Favorite Links" > <asp:ListItem Value="http://msdn.microsoft.com"> MSDN </asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="http://www.asp.net"> ASP.NET </asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="http://www.msn.com"> MSN </asp:ListItem> </asp:BulletedList> <br /> <asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server" Title="My Calendar" /> </ZoneTemplate> </asp:WebPartZone> </div> <hr /> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Width="200" Text="Toggle ChromeState" OnClick="Button1_Click" /> <br /> <asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Width="200" Text="Toggle BulletedList1 Title" OnClick="Button2_Click"/> </form> </body> </html>
After you load the page in a browser and click the Toggle ChromeState button, the code in the partial class loops through the WebPartCollection object and alternately minimizes the controls or returns them to normal. Or, if you repeatedly click the Toggle BulletedList1 Title button, the title of the uppermost control is changed to alternate values.
- AspNetHostingPermission for operating in a hosted environment. Demand value: LinkDemand; Permission value: Minimal.
System.Collections.ReadOnlyCollectionBase
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartCollection
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.
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