Yes, you can. Give it a try.

Note that Umbraco 7 is capable of displaying both MVC views and ASP.NET web forms pages. It may be configured to create MVC views by default, so if that happens refer to "defaultRenderingEngine" on http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Config-files/umbracoSettings/

By the way, if you do end up going with MVC, the equivalent to a usercontrol would be a partial view.

Umbraco also has the ability to encapsulate either a usercontrol or partial view into what is called a "macro", but that is not actually necessary (i.e., you can use usercontrols and partials views like on any ASP.NET project).

Thank you.  Is there documentation on this. I am not using MVC.  I have tried the simple Hello World example for a user control using a macro but if there is a way to not use the macro that would be interesting.

Is there documentation on how to get the data bound user control working?  I didn't find any.

-Jennifer

For example, your template (an ASP.NET WebForms masterpage) would look something like this:

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/UserControls/TestControl.ascx" TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="TestControl" %>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server">
    <uc1:TestControl runat="server" id="TestControl" />
</asp:Content>

And your user control would look something like this:

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="TestControl.ascx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication6.UserControls.TestControl" %>
<%
    lvTest.DataSource = new List<string>() {"a", "b", "c"};
    lvTest.DataBind();
%>

<asp:ListView runat="server" ID="lvTest">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

Take care to change the namespaces and such. If "CodeBehind" doesn't work, maybe try "CodeFile".

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