Helper tool for truncating text based on a Length of characters in a Sitefinity Widget Template

EventListTemplate.ascx

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="cc1" Namespace="SitefinityWebApp.Tools" Assembly="SitefinityWebApp" %>

<telerik:RadListView ID="eventsList" ItemPlaceholderID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet="false">
    <LayoutTemplate>
        <ul class="sfeventsList sfeventsListTitleCityDateContent">
            <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" />
        </ul>
    </LayoutTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <li class="sfeventListItem">
            <div class="sfeventDateSummary">
               <div class="sfeventDay"><%# Eval("EventStart", "{0:ddd}")%></div>
               <div class="sfeventDate"><%# Eval("EventStart", "{0:dd}")%></div>
               <div class="sfeventMonth"><%# Eval("EventStart", "{0:MMM}")%></div>
            </div>

            <h3 class="sfeventTitle">
                <sf:DetailsViewHyperLink ID="DetailsViewHyperLink1" TextDataField="Title" ToolTipDataField="Description" runat="server" />
            </h3>
            <div class="sfeventMetaInfo">
                <sf:FieldListView ID="where" runat="server" Text="{0} | " Properties="City"   /> 
                <sf:FieldListView ID="EventsDates" runat="server" />
            </div>
            <div class="sfeventContent">
                <cc1:Truncate Text='<%# Eval("Content")%>' WordLength="200" runat="server" />
                <sf:DetailsViewHyperLink ID="DetailsViewHyperLink2" Text="Read more" runat="server" />
            </div>
        </li>
    </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:RadListView>
<sf:Pager id="pager" runat="server" NavigationMode="Links"></sf:Pager>

EventStyles.css

ul.sfeventsList 
{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

ul.sfeventsList h3.sfeventTitle
{
    border-bottom: 1px solid #707070;
    font-size: 1.5em;
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
    margin: 0 0 0.25em 3.5em;
}

ul.sfeventsList h3.sfeventTitle a 
{
    color: Black;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.sfeventsList .sfeventDateSummary 
{
    color: White;
    float: left;
    padding: 0.5em;
    margin: 0 1em 0 0;
    background-color: #464646;
    text-align: center;
    clear: both;
    width: 3.5em;
}

.sfeventsList .sfeventDateSummary .sfeventDay 
{
    font-size: 1.25em;
}

.sfeventListItem 
{
    margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}

Truncate.cs

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Data.Summary;

namespace SitefinityWebApp.Tools
{
    public class Truncate : Literal
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Determines how many words the Text will be truncated to.  Sitefinity will preserve the HTML.
        /// </summary>
        public int WordLength
        {
            get
            {
                return _wordlength;
            }
            set
            {
                _wordlength = value;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is used for backwards compatibility.  The first version of Truncate only had the Length property.
        /// </summary>
        public int Length
        {
            get
            {
                return WordLength;
            }
            set
            {
                WordLength = value;
            }
        }

        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {

            var settings = new SummarySettings(SummaryMode.Words, WordLength, false);
            Text = SummaryParser.GetSummary(Text, settings);
            base.CreateChildControls();
        }

        private int _wordlength = 20;

    }
}