Creating a Component

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Using the CMS-Extended IFrameComponent Attribute
• User Controls

Introduction

This document describes the additional functionality of the CMS-extended IFrameComponent attribute to create a component for a web form or user control. For more information on the base attribute, see the Framework IFrameComponent attribute.

Using the CMS-Extended IFrameComponent Attribute

To create an IFrameComponent, add the IFrameComponent attribute to the class as follows:

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[IFrameComponent(UrlFromUi="Edit/MyUserControl.ascx")]
public class MyUserControl
{
...
}

The CMS extension of the IFrameComponent has the following additional parameters:

User Controls

If a control with ascx file name ending is used in any of the Url properties, it will be automatically wrapped in an EPiServer.PageBase page.