Anyone had any luck using the server control development approach yet?

I can get my View part of my module working fine (although there are some AJAX and resource file issues), but am having trouble with other areas like an Edit control (or any other additional page/control).

4.5.0 now supports creating modules without the need for any user controls (ascx files). With server control development, everything is dynamically built via code.

While the View definitions for modules built this way seem to work fine (with the exception of some resource file and AJAX issues), getting Edit definitions (or anything other than View) has been a struggle.

There has always been a "work around" for doing this kind of development. It involved still having an .ascx but with nothing in the HTML code and all implemented in the code behind instead. I've done a number of modules this way.

New to 4.5.0 is the ability to completely create server controls with no .ascx at all. Unfortunately, I don't think it is "complete" yet.

Go to Charles Nurse' blog and look for his "Look Mom, no hands" article. It gives an example in "Hello World" fashion. Problem is, that it is only the "View" part and has no other examples.

Charles has said he'd look into it a little further and get back to me. I'll keep you posted.

My module I am creating is a Weather module (currently using the Yahoo Weather Rss service) and I was easily able to get it's "View" part working and rendering perfectly. What I couldn't get working was:

1.) Nothing other than View definitions worked.

2.) Couldn't get AJAX working.

3.) Couldn't get localization to work.

Of course, I'll keep on trying...

;)