Here's a small tip for
Patrick, since he's
going to deliver a TechEd Session on Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0.
:-) An important thing in your web part pages is the
functionality to switch to design mode (at run-time), so your
users can change properties, location, connections etc. for
the web parts. In the pre-Beta2 age, we had the
WebPartPageMenu control for that, but in Beta 2 this control
has been removed. The
QuickStarts
seem to be using a custom control that is simulating this
behavior, but they don't provide the source for it. Luckily
it's quite easy to re-create, you can switch by using
WebPartManager1.DisplayMode =
WebPartManager.DesignDisplayMode;
and
WebPartManager1.DisplayMode =
WebPartManager.BrowseDisplayMode;. Check out
Darren's post
for more info!