FCKeditor and ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Okay, if you haven't already done so review the ASP.NET Integration documentation at:

http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x ... on/ASP.NET

Once you're on top of that go ahead and fire up a Dynamic Data project and add two new field templates under the DynamicData\FieldTemplates folder. I named mine FCKeditor.ascx and FCKeditor_Edit.ascx.

For the read-only field template (FCKeditor.ascx) I just used a span because all I needed was something to render HTML. The contents of FCKeditor.ascx looks like this:

<%@ Control Language="C#" CodeBehind="FCKeditor.ascx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.EditorField" %>

<span id="FCKeditor1" runat="server">
<%# FieldValueEditString %>
</span>

The contents of the read/write field template (FCKeditor_Edit.ascx) looks like this:

<%@ Control Language="C#" CodeBehind="FCKeditor_Edit.ascx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.FCKeditor_EditField" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="FredCK.FCKeditorV2" Namespace="FredCK.FCKeditorV2" TagPrefix="FCKeditorV2" %>
<FCKeditorV2:FCKeditor ID="FCKeditor_Edit1" BasePath="~/fckeditor/" Value="<%# FieldValueEditString %>"
runat="server" ToolbarSet="AAGI" Width="700" Height="300">
</FCKeditorV2:FCKeditor>

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator runat="server" ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" ControlToValidate="FCKeditor_Edit1" Display="Dynamic" Enabled="false" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator runat="server" ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" ControlToValidate="FCKeditor_Edit1" Display="Dynamic" Enabled="false" />
<asp:DynamicValidator runat="server" ID="DynamicValidator1" ControlToValidate="FCKeditor_Edit1" Display="Dynamic" />

The only other thing I had to do was create a partial class to extend the LINQ-to-SQL partial class and decorate the appropriate member(s) with the UIHint. My partial class looks something like this:

using System.Data.Linq;
using System.Data.Linq.Mapping;
using System.Data;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System;

namespace Projects
{
[MetadataType(typeof(ProjectMetaData))]
public partial class Project
{
}

public class ProjectMetaData
{
[UIHint("FCKeditor")]
public object ItemDetails { get; set; }
}
}