Creating your own News Item Types

Here is the same code for how to create a News Item Type.  The following example accepts an aspx page as the val_ParameterString and runs the ASPX and returns a string that contains the output from the ASPX page.

Public Class ASPXPage

   Public Function Draw(ByVal val_Name As String, _

                            ByVal val_ParameterString As String, _

                            ByRef ref_PageVariables As WebAndFlo2006Lib.PageVariables) As String

       Draw = ""

       Try

           Dim loc_page As String

           Dim loc_out As System.IO.TextWriter = New System.IO.StringWriter

           loc_page = ref_PageVariables.SessionVariables.Evaluate(val_ParameterString, ref_PageVariables.SessionVariables)

           Call ref_PageVariables.SessionVariables.Server.Execute(loc_page, loc_out)

           Draw = loc_out.ToString

       Catch e As Exception

           LogError.LogError(e)

       End Try

   End Function

End Class