Yeah no way to retrieve them, i could give you the code that is used to generate if that helps?

That would be great, thanks Tim.

pageCssClass.Text = "class=\"" + Data.XmlHelper.XmlName(formService.Form.Name) + " " + Data.XmlHelper.XmlName(formService.CurrentPage.Caption) + "\"";

public static string XmlName(string caption) {

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(caption))
        {
            string retval = caption;
            //if the caption starts with a number this would cause invalid xml,
            //so adding a n before the number fixes that
            if (Char.IsNumber(retval.Substring(0, 1).ToCharArray()[0]))
                retval = "n" + retval;

            retval = Regex.Replace(retval, @"\W*", "").ToLower();

            return retval;
        }
        else
            return string.Empty;
    }

Looks like you're doing your own parsing as well. Either way I'd end up having to parse something. Might just be easier to parse out the markup: class="([^"]+)".

Just in case, formService.CurrentPage is found how? That would be a local member variable to your API right? What does it represent?

Thanks for the help.

Tim, do you you have any documentation on extending Contour ASCX UI as you have provided for the Razor implementation? I've successfully extended the RenderForm.ascx control but am not finding a lot of documentation on modifying the input UI where the placeholder renders. I'm doing a lot of reverse engineering here.

<!-- The data entry control -->
<asp:placeholder id="placeholder" runat="server" />

Thanks.

Nope not recommended to extend that one since you might break some stuff, not as easy as with the razor one

I was able to do what I needed on prerender of the control. Still a hack, but it works.

Are you planning on doing any enhancements to the ASP.NET version of Contour? Or just planning on enhancing the MVC version? It wouldn't be that difficult to create templated rendering control if you did. Just a thought.

Nope no changes will happen to the usercontrol version, razor one is the prefered option

Tim, would you be willing to discuss extending/maintaining the usercontrol version for those of us who still use Webforms and get better integration when implementing controls this way?

Not sure we'll be putting lot's of effort in that one but open to discuss

We could share the code for the control if that helps you out 

Absotutely. If you're willing to share the source for the user control method of implementing the macros that would definitely help. How can I get in touch with you? The forums don't provide contact information.

tg at umbraco dot com

But will make it public later this week, just wating on the final ok

Ok code is here 

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8953426

You'll just need to replace the existing form usercontrol with your custom one then

Awesome! Thank you very much. We'd  be willing to help maintain this (with updates) if you make it a contributable project on Github.

Yeah will do that, thanks that's great :)

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