Not sure of a great way to explain this. but here we go:

I have taken the Blog Module and copied it into my own project and have been modifying it.

I needed to be able to force the Left Column to show as I am adding controls that are not "modules" into the column. ( not adding a column to the center content so it looks like a left... that wont work for me for s

But during LoadSideContent() in mojoBasePage, since there are no modules registered with the PageSettings for that column, the column will not show.

So i have a wrote a simple public function to access the properties as need them.

in mojoBasePage

public void ForceSideContent(bool? includeLeft, bool? includeRight)
{

     if (includeLeft.HasValue)
      this.forceShowLeft = includeLeft.Value;

     if (includeRight.HasValue)
      this.forceShowRight = includeRight.Value;

}

Is there a better way to add non "module" type/level controls and not have to extend mojoBasePage?

example: I built an Ajax Achive control, that uses the info from the blog module on the page, it as well as other small controls are added to the left side.

Thoughts?

Warner

I agree modifying mojoBasePage could be a serious problem for maintaining it going forward...

But what about extending it?

I need to be able to Force the left & right column be visible.  the only "easy" way i could see is just extending, and opening up access to the private vars i need to modify?