Hi.  Have there been any changes in how to declare and use the SectionHead DNN User Control (~\controls\sectionheadcontrol.ascx) between DNN 4 and DNN 7?  The reason that I ask is that I have moved a custom user control that uses the SectionHead control from a DNN 4 to a DNN 7 site, and the SectionHead tables aren't rendering.  No errors occur, but nothing is displayed.

I've double-checked my code against Mitchel Sellers' book ("Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming") and  J.K. Murphy's book ("DNN 5.4 Cookbook"), and everything looks OK, but those books cover module development in DNN 5 and earlier.  Does anyone know of a reference that shows examples of how to use the SectionHead control in DNN 7.x?

See Ya!
Van

Cathal, thank you very much for taking the time to reply.  The examples you provided are fantastic for seeing how to create a SectionHead programmatically.  Nice stuff.

I fixed the issue.  It appears that the syntax for SectionHead control has NOT changed between DNN 4.3.5 and DNN 7.2.1.

There were multiple causes to the problem I was experiencing.  The one issue was that the SectionHead  control was invisible by default, and it was only made visible when the DataBind() event fired, and the DataBind() event was not firing automatically.  The fix was to call DataBind() within the OnLoad() event. I'm not sure how the DataBind() event is magically firing in the old DNN 4.3.5 installation without being called, though.  That's still a mystery.

A second problem was due to misconfigured CSS.  Now that the SectionHead control was appearing, the text was white-on-white.  Duh!  An easy fix, though.

By the way, this user control is a copy of the old User.ascx control from DNN 4.3.5 that's been modified with extra logic.

Anyway, it's working, and I appreciate the help.

See Ya!
Van