PageCatalogPart Web Server Control Overview
The PageCatalogPart Web server control provides a catalog that keeps references to all WebPart controls (and other server controls that are contained in WebPartZoneBase zones) that a user has closed on a single Web Parts page. The user interface that is provided by the PageCatalogPart control enables the user to add the closed controls back to the page at run time.
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Background
The PageCatalogPart control acts as a page catalog to maintain any controls that were previously added to the page and that a user has closed. Later, the user can add them back to the page. This control is visible only when a Web page is in catalog-display mode, which is a special view that lets users add and remove controls on the page. Only closed controls are added to the page catalog. Add a PageCatalogPart control to your page if you want to provide users with the flexibility of closing and reopening controls.
Note
If your page does not let users close controls, you do not have to add a PageCatalogPart control to the page.
For more information, see ASP.NET Web Parts Controls.
About Closed Controls
Users can close controls on a Web Parts page. A closed control has the following characteristics:
It is not visible on the page.
It is not rendered on the page.
It does not participate in page life-cycle phases.
Closing a control is different from deleting it, which permanently removes it from the page. A user can reopen a closed control instance from a page catalog, but after a user deletes a control, that control cannot be recovered.
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Code Examples
Walkthrough: Creating a Web Parts Page
How to: Treat a User Control as a Web Parts Control
How to: Provide Optional Web Parts Controls
How to: Enable Users to Import Web Parts Control Settings
How to: Export Web Parts Control Settings
How to: Build and Run the Data-bound Web Parts Control Example
Walkthrough: Changing Display Modes on a Web Parts Page
How to: Set the Display Mode of a Web Parts Page
Walkthrough: Implementing Web Parts Personalization with a User Control
Walkthrough: Implementing Web Parts Personalization using IPersonalizable
How to: Enable Shared Personalization of Web Parts Pages
How to: Disable Web Parts Personalization
How to: Create Personalizable Properties on a Web Parts Control
How to: Remove User Entries from the Personalization Store
How to: Enable Users to Clear Personalization State
How to: Declare a Static Connection between Two Web Parts Controls
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Class Reference
- PageCatalogPart
Provides the class definition of the PageCatalogPart Web server control.
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See Also
Concepts
DeclarativeCatalogPart Web Server Control Overview
PageCatalogPart Web Server Control Overview
ImportCatalogPart Web Server Control Overview
Reference
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts