a little complex Linq2SQl insert operation (Dynamic user control and page insertion)

Question

hi, i am really trying to do this but i am failing to find a way.

here is the scenario, i got a blog module i made for my clients, because it is a repeatative task, so i all i have to do is to just upload it to new client and he can start blogging, but some clients need extra custom fields, let us say he wants to add a phone number for each article author, or extra reference, but i don't want to implement it for each client because it is a custom requirement.

now to do that i thought of creating a dynamic user control with this extra filed and this code in the user control for example

Blog bl = new Blog();
bl.ExtraRefrence = " http://www.something.com";

load it into the blog management panel, but what i want to do is to have the ability to let user control use the data context in the main blog editing page, what i mean is that the main page will have the insert command, so how i let main page insert command see the dynamic user control value without creating 2 Blog objects one in page and one in user control.

sorry if i am not clear, but seriously this killing me.

Answer 1

Option 1
Make the field configurable.

Pseudo-code:

if client.HasExtraReference() then
   <asp:label text="<%= client.ExtrareferenceLabel %>" />
   <asp:textbox id="txtExtraReference" />
end if

and the in code-behind

Blog bl = new Blog();
bl.Content = ...
....
if client.HasExtraReference() then
    bl.ExtraRefrence = txtExtraReference.text;
end if

The HasExtraReference method could look you some config.

Option 2
If have multiple extra and variable number of fields you could add a ExtraBlogItem table.

BlogExtraItem
-------------
BlogExtraItemID int
BlogID int
ItemName Varchar(50)
ItemValue Varchar(250)

Add the items you wish in the page, and then pass a uniform List( Of BlogExtraItem ) parameter to the Blog.Insert Function