WebPartHelpMode Enum

Definition

Specifies the available types of user interfaces (UIs) for displaying Help content for a WebPart control.

public enum class WebPartHelpMode
public enum WebPartHelpMode
type WebPartHelpMode = 
Public Enum WebPartHelpMode
Inheritance
WebPartHelpMode

Fields

Modal 0

Opens a separate browser window, if the browser has this capability. A user must close the window before returning to the Web Parts page.

Modeless 1

Opens a separate browser window, if the browser has this capability. A user does not have to close the window before returning to the Web page.

Navigate 2

Replaces the Web Parts page in the browser window.

Examples

The following example demonstrates the use of the WebPart.HelpMode property to display Help for a control in the same browser window. The first part of this example assumes the use of a custom control, TextDisplayWebPart, which is found in the Examples section of the WebPart class.

The example also includes an HTML page that contains fictitious Help content for the TextDisplayWebPart control. For this example to work, you must save the following code in a file named Textwebparthelp.htm and place it in the same directory of your site as the .aspx page.

<html>  
<head runat="server">  
    <title>Text Content WebPart Help</title>  
</head>  
<body>  
  <div>  
  <h1>Text Content WebPart Help</h1>  
  To make the WebPart control work...  
  </div>  
</body>  
</html>  

The final part of the example is a Web page that shows how to reference the TextDisplayWebPart control. Note that in the declarative markup, the WebPart.HelpMode property value is set to Navigate, and the code also sets the value of the WebPart.HelpUrl property to the name of the HTML file that contains the Help content. Load the page into a browser, and click the help verb on the verbs menu of the WebPart control.

<%@ page language="C#" %>
<%@ register tagprefix="aspSample" 
             Namespace="Samples.AspNet.CS.Controls" 
             Assembly="TextDisplayWebPartCS" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form id="Form1" runat="server">
    <asp:webpartmanager id="WebPartManager1" runat="server" />
    <asp:webpartzone
      id="WebPartZone1"
      runat="server"
      backcolor="#99cccc">
        <parttitlestyle font-bold="true" forecolor="#ffffff" />
        <partstyle
          borderwidth="1px" 
          borderstyle="Solid" 
          bordercolor="#81AAF2" />
        <zonetemplate>
          <aspSample:TextDisplayWebPart 
            runat="server"   
            id="textwebpart" 
            title = "Text Content WebPart" 
            width="350px" 
            HelpMode="navigate"
            HelpUrl="TextWebPartHelp.htm" />
        </zonetemplate>
    </asp:webpartzone>
  </form>
</body>
</html>
<%@ page language="VB" %>
<%@ register tagprefix="aspSample" 
             Namespace="Samples.AspNet.VB.Controls" 
             Assembly="TextDisplayWebPartVB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form id="Form1" runat="server">
    <asp:webpartmanager id="WebPartManager1" runat="server" />
    <asp:webpartzone
      id="WebPartZone1"
      runat="server"
      backcolor="#99cccc">
        <parttitlestyle font-bold="true" forecolor="#ffffff" />
        <partstyle
          borderwidth="1px" 
          borderstyle="Solid" 
          bordercolor="#81AAF2" />
        <zonetemplate>
          <aspSample:TextDisplayWebPart 
            runat="server"   
            id="textwebpart" 
            title = "Text Content WebPart" 
            width="350px" 
            HelpMode="navigate"
            HelpUrl="TextWebPartHelp.htm" />
        </zonetemplate>
    </asp:webpartzone>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

Remarks

The HelpMode property is used to determine how a browser will display Help content for a control. The WebPartHelpMode enumeration contains values that can be applied to the HelpMode property. The default value for the HelpMode property is Modal.

Applies to