RadRotater Web Part help

[Nathan]

Dear List,

I am trying to create a web part for the rad rotator. After much trial and error I have managed to create the web part and get it to come up in the server gallery.

When I try and drag and drop the web part onto a new page I get the following error:

The "RotatorWebPart" Web Part appears to be causing a problem. RadRotator: You have not specified a template OR there is problem with your databinding expression (possibly you haven't specified a datasource or content file).

I'm not sure what this error means? The webpart I have created simply wraps the RadRotator.Net2.dll into the class.

My Complete code and confirguration is below. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

---

[RadRotatorWebPart.cs]

using

System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;

using

System.Text;

using

System.Web;

using

System.Web.UI;

using

System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using

Telerik.WebControls;

using

Microsoft.SharePoint;

using

Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;

using

Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages;

using

System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace

RadRotatorWebPart.WebParts

{

[

XmlRoot(Namespace = "RadRotatorWebPart.WebParts")]

public class RotatorWebPart : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart

{

private RadRotator radRotator;

override protected void CreateChildControls()

{

radRotator =

new RadRotator();

radRotator.ID =

"RadRotator1";

this.Controls.Add(radRotator);

}

protected override void RenderWebPart(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter output)

{

EnsureChildControls();

RenderChildren(output);

}

}

}

In my web part file I have added the sharepoint dll reference: 
Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c, processorArchitecture=MSIL

And I have also Referenced the RadRotator.Net2.dll: 
RadRotator.Net2, Version=2.7.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=de81a6506e5a433a, processorArchitecture=MSIL

---

[Nathan]

I am building this into a wsp solution file and here is the makeup of these files

[manifest.xml]

<?

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<

Solution xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"

SolutionId="DC821995-2B38-4c5c-813D-6FB092C5731F"

DeploymentServerType="WebFrontEnd"

ResetWebServer="TRUE">

<

Assemblies>

<!--

deploy the assembly to the server’s bin directory -->

<

Assembly DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" Location="RadRotator.Net2.dll">

<!--

add two safe control entries to the web.config -->

<

SafeControls>

<

SafeControl Namespace="Telerik.RadRotatorUtils" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />

<

SafeControl Namespace="Telerik.RadControlUtils" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />

<

SafeControl Namespace="Telerik.WebControls" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />

</

SafeControls>

</

Assembly>

<

Assembly DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" Location="RadRotatorWebPart.dll">

<

SafeControls>

<

SafeControl Namespace="RadRotatorWebPart.WebParts" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />

</

SafeControls>

</

Assembly>

</

Assemblies>

<

DwpFiles>

<

DwpFile Location="RadRotator.dwp" />

</

DwpFiles>

</

Solution>

---

[default.ddf]

.OPTION Explicit

.Set DiskDirectoryTemplate=CDROM

.Set CompressionType=MSZIP

.Set UniqueFiles=Off

.Set Cabinet=On

;**************************************************

RadRotator.Net2.dll

RadRotatorWebPart.dll

manifest.xml

RadRotator.dwp

.Set DestinationDir=Scripts\2_7_1

Scripts\2_7_1\RadRotator.js

Scripts\2_7_1\RadTicker.js

.Set DestinationDir=images

images\arrow_in.png

---

[RadRotator.dwp]

<?

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<

WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2" >

<

Title>Telerik RadRotator for MOSS</Title>

<

Description>RadRotator Web Part</Description>

<

Assembly>RadRotatorWebPart, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0097a87667f95598</Assembly>

<

TypeName>RadRotatorWebPart.WebParts.RotatorWebPart</TypeName>

<

TitleIconImageUrl>/images/arrow_in.png</TitleIconImageUrl>

</

WebPart>

---

And of course I deploy the RadRotator.Net2.dll and my own dll that I wrote, RadRotatorWebPart.dll.

Thanks

[Peter]

Hi Nathan,

You need to define a frame template for RadRotator. You can do so programmatically as show in the help topic on How to Create RadRotator Programmatically.


All the best,
Peter
the Telerik team

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