Fun with ASP.Net Controls inside MVC app

Dont want to start at very basics...

Do you have a MVC view (say index.chtml)page where your out put is minimally

<h2>Name: @Model.FirstName</h2>
<h2>hi</h2><h2>Name: @Model.FirstName</h2>
<h2>hi</h2>

If Yes ... I will start here

File ->  new  -> create a class as below...

    public class Myclass : Control
    {
        private string name { get; set; }
        private string url { get; set; }
        public Myclass(string aid,string aurl)
        {
            name = aid;
            url = aurl;
        }
        protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
        {
            writer.WriteLine("<a href=\"" + url + "\"align=\"left\"  > " + name + " </a> ");
        }
   }   

It is just a custom control that does rendering as required.

Now let me go to out index.chtml page.

@section header{
This message form top.
@GetMyOWNControl("hotmail", "http://www.hotmail.com")
@GetMyOWNControl("yahoo", "http://www.yahoo.com")
@GetMyOWNControl("janaganamana", "http://www.janaganamana.net")

}
@helper GetMyOWNControl(String iname, string iurl)
    {
        try
        {
            Page pageHolder = new System.Web.UI.Page();
            System.Web.UI.WebControls.Panel p = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Panel();
            p.Controls.Add(new System.Web.UI.WebControls.HyperLink() { Text = iname, NavigateUrl = iurl });
            p.Controls.Add(new PartyInvites.Myclass(iname, iurl));
            pageHolder.Controls.Add(p);
           
            using (StringWriter output = new StringWriter())
            {
                HttpContext.Current.Server.Execute(pageHolder, output, true);
                var outputToReturn = output.ToString();//.Replace("\"", "\\\"").Replace("\r", " ").Replace("\n", " ").Replace("\t", " ");
                @(new HtmlString(outputToReturn))
               // @Html.Raw(outputToReturn)
            }
        }catch (Exception){}
     }

may be i unnecessarily complicated it adding sections

your layout(/master page)  may have

    <div id="main">
        <div id="header">
            @RenderSection("header", false)
        </div>
        <h2>
            gala gala</h2>
        @RenderBody()
        <div id="footer">
            @RenderSection("footer", false)
        </div>
    </div>

Hilighted is the one that calls "@section header "

remember you can add any control into this panel...

p.Controls.Add(new Myclass(iname, iurl));

now you can use any of your ASP.NET controls. -- Happy coding...