[November-06]

I graduated last year and landed on a good programming job. Work has been busy since I started but today I had a lot of spare time so I decided to read some articles that will help me improve my skills.

Work is done individually so I do not really get a chance to see how others do things except from my other two projects before which was turned over to me. In those projects, I got to see and understand the approach used by the previous developers.

The ASP.NET folder for App_Code is common to all the projects that I handled so I tried reading some articles about it this morning. I realized that even though I already have more than a year of experience, I am still too far from becoming a strong programmer since there are still a lot for me to know. I did not even know that there are still other ASP.NET folders besides the App_Code.

Maybe you are getting bored with my story so I'll proceed with my question. I wanted to focus on learning to use the App_Themes so I decided to try it today.

I created two themes: Blue and Green.

I created a MasterPage with a banner, content area and footer.

In the banner, there is a dropdownlist for Theme Selection and there is also a button to apply the theme selected

I placed the

Page.Theme = ddl.SelectedItem.Value;

in the MasterPage's Page_PreInit but it was never triggered... Not on first load of page and not even on the postback.

Any idea why it isn't triggered? Should I change the theme per page or can I do it in a MasterPage?

This post has been edited by November-06: 12 November 2012 - 01:26 AM

[JackOfAllTrades]

This should be in ASP.NET.

Moved.

[souptoy]

I think we'd need to see your code to be able to tell you why something isn't working the way you expect it to.

[November-06]

PreInit in MasterPage doesn't work but it works in ASP.NET pages.I override the OnPreInit
for the page and everything works.

Now I am creating a class that I can inherit for every page.

To change the theme for the whole site, I am setting the theme in web.config and everything works fine.

I just have a really simple layout so I would try to build a more complex one later.

Thanks for taking time to read and reply to this post.

I'll try to do other things too so that I can explore the other .NET functionalities.

This post has been edited by November-06: 12 November 2012 - 07:00 PM

[souptoy]

November-06, on 12 November 2012 - 05:58 PM, said:

Now I am creating a class that I can inherit for every page.

As far as I am concerned, that is a best practice. It allows you to avoid code duplication throughout your entire site (i.e. - code that gets/sets error messages).

As for your theme issue, you can use your custom Page class to set the page's theme programmatically by overriding the Page_PreInit event:

protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Page.Theme = ddlTheme.SelectedValue == "Blue" ? "Blue" : "Green";
}

You can also set the stylesheet theme by programmatically overriding the StyleSheetTheme property:

public override string StyleSheetTheme
{
  get { return ddlTheme.SelectedValue == "Blue" ? "Blue" : "Green"; }
}