Template Questions, Site Design Suggestions, ASP.NET Newbie

[suzy]

Jordan, you need to use asp.net Page Templates.

[url]http://www.aspnetui.com/templates/[/url]

i am trying to do the same thing and still can't get it to work the way i
want to. :(


"Jordan Marton" <JMarton@HAHAmarketaxess.com> wrote in message
news:Op3rtuoVDHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> Hi There!
>
> This is my first post to these newsgroups, so I hope I'm asking in the

right

> place. I am currently a comfrotable ASP 3.0 developer, and use Dreamweaver
> MX and Access databases to make my sites. One of the handiest features of

DW

> was templates, as it enabled me to keep all pages constant.
>
> As I am now learning ASP.NET and have just purchased VisualBasic.Net 2003,

I

> was wondering if it is possible to achieve the same sort of "template"

site

> design as I am yused to.
>
> I understand that user controls can be included on every page, and

therefor

> I'd only have to edit each control to change the site. But I mean if I

need

> to add an additional user control to every page, then thats a lot harder
> than addining a new control once to the main template and having all other
> pages inherit that.
>
> Any ideas comments suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Jordan
>
>

[Michael Pearson]

For templates:
Create a class in your ASP.net Project and have it inherit from the Page object like this:
Public Class cMyTemplate : Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

then you'll need to override teh Render method like so

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)

'Create your header here with response.writes etc etc

mybase.render(writer)

'create your footer here



When you add a new webform to the project, look in the code behind file. You'll see at the top that it inherits from System.Web.UI.Page. Change System.Web.UI.Page to cMyTemplate (or whatever you called it).

Now, when your new webform is rendered, it will write out a header, write out whatever is in the webform (that's the mybase.render ) and then render out a footer.

It's quick and fast. Also, if you look at teh IBuySpy portal example, they give you a another way to do similar things with WebUserControls. A Web usercontrol is similar to an Include fiel in ASP 3.0



Michael

"Jordan Marton" <JMarton@HAHAmarketaxess.com> wrote in message news:Op3rtuoVDHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> Hi There!
>
> This is my first post to these newsgroups, so I hope I'm asking in the right
> place. I am currently a comfrotable ASP 3.0 developer, and use Dreamweaver
> MX and Access databases to make my sites. One of the handiest features of DW
> was templates, as it enabled me to keep all pages constant.
>
> As I am now learning ASP.NET and have just purchased VisualBasic.Net 2003, I
> was wondering if it is possible to achieve the same sort of "template" site
> design as I am yused to.
>
> I understand that user controls can be included on every page, and therefor
> I'd only have to edit each control to change the site. But I mean if I need
> to add an additional user control to every page, then thats a lot harder
> than addining a new control once to the main template and having all other
> pages inherit that.
>
> Any ideas comments suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Jordan
>
>

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