ASPX & ASCX - what's the difference?

bizzydint · Jul 18, 2003

My site (set up by someone else) is made up of a bunch of asPx pages, each containing controls specified in asCx files.

Now im guessing the "C" means theres code involved???? unless someone wants to enlighten me?

Its annoying me that the asPx files are essentially just templates which tell the page which Title control, footer control and main control to use. So i want to get rid of the asPx files, and make the ascx files contain a link to the Title and footer controls and the actual content of the main control (am i making sense??)

Im pretty sure its possible, so i really just want to know if its a particularly inefficient/frowned upon way of doing things....

cheers mdears,
van

wyrd · Jul 18, 2003

ASCX means its a control. ASPX means its an ASP.NET page.

bizzydint · Jul 18, 2003

but is there any *actual* difference? can i make the changes i want to??

PlausiblyDamp · Jul 18, 2003

ASCX files are designed to be placed within ASPX pages, they are missing several vital HTML tags (<HTML>, <FORM>, <BODY>, <HEAD>) and as such cannot be rendered by browsers.

Using them is a form of code / UI reuse and quite a good practice. Is there any particular reason why you desire to change how things are currently being done?

bizzydint · Jul 21, 2003

The reason is.....

We currently have a "skin" feature on our site - its meant for teenagers, who are notoriously picky!

The way it works atm is that for *each* skin we have a set of ASPX files and just one universal set of ASCX files containing the core controls which get reused for each skin.

Now you can imagine that this is a pain to update (although we rarely need to change the aspx files) and really these files dont have any vital info in them, so i wanted to do away with them.

But it seems that they are required. So Ill probably have to work out a way of having *one* set of ASPX which knows which skin style sheet, title bar and footer its meant to use....must be possible

Thanks for helping - youve just confirmed what i already thought!

ASPX & ASCX - what's the difference?

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