Normal story, deploy code and what you think is live isnt actually live.  In this case I am talking about the ASP.net 1.1 Service pack 1.

And low and behold get a lovely javascript error when you have added controls to pages etc etc.

So after much digging around I found a solution to the problem (that is rather than deploying the service pack due to restrictions on the live server), which works lovely.  The solution …

You can override the render method in your pages or base classes depending on what your doing, like so

// Override the render method for all those machines
// without ASP.net 1.1 service pack 1

protected override voidRender(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter stringWriter = new
StringWriter(stringBuilder); HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
base.Render(htmlWriter);
string html = stringBuilder.ToString();
int start = html.IndexOf(”

Right have now added a static page called About Me on the site.

It was quite easy to do and just followed the instructions from the additional controls by Bill Nalen.

I will go through the steps below …. 

As Bill says there are three changes that need to be made.

1. Create a new control, I called mine AboutMe.ascx.  This file goes in your skin controls directory.  The contents of the file should look like this (without the spaces in the tags):   < % @ Control Language="c#" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="Dottext.Web.UI.Controls.BaseControl" % > < P >All about me.< / P >
2. Register your page name in the http handlers in the Web.Config file. This entry will look different depending on which defaul configuration you started with. The easiest way to make this change is to look for the Contact.aspx entry and copy it. Replace Contact.aspx with About.aspx and Contact.ascx with About.ascx. .Text will now know to put your about.ascx content into the main content section of the page.
3. Add a link to your new page. This would usually be in the MyLink.ascx file in the skin controls directory. Again, just copy the entry for Contact and replace the contact info with the appropriate About entries.