ASP.NET UI Customization

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In my application, I have a situation wherein the users will need to have the flexibility to customize the UI to a certain extent. The following are some of the customizations that is being discussed now...

Change Label text associated with the with Use Input controls
Mark a control as Mandatory/Read only/Hidden
Assign a regular expression for the text box

Are there any recommended design patterns for my situation? Seems like I need to store all these in a database and worried about the performance impact if I have to read every element from the database for every page.

Thanks, Harsha

Robert Harvey · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-29 16:20:48Z

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I would look at some of the open-source CMS or portal systems written in ASP.NET and see how they are doing UI customization (if they are).

Phil Haack has some insight at the following article:

Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database
http://haacked.com/archive/2009/04/22/scripted-db-views.aspx

Apparently it's not an easy thing to do in ASP.NET. It's easier to do in ASP.NET MVC, because the markup is cleaner and you can control it with jQuery.

answered Dec 29, 2009 at 16:20

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CFK · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-29 16:24:47Z

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The overall concept you are going for is not easy to have system wide, however the specifics you stated are fairly easy.

You'd have to setup some fields in a database for those values and then on the page load set those values on the page load. Pretty trivial from a 'how to'. Which your question shows that you 'get'.

Now unless you are using an Access Database :-), I don't think you have to worry about the performance hit. But if truly concerned, put some caching logic on those values so you only have to hit the database once. Though, be aware this will store the values in memory on the server, so if you are working with a very minimal hardware this could be an issue as well.

answered Dec 29, 2009 at 16:24

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