Any advice on creating a template Web Site? 3

[jw970170]

Hello everyone,

I am creating a website using Visual Studio .NET. Is there any special way to create a template?

My current method is to include a header and a footer file in each html page generated by Visual Studio. Is there a better way of creating a template?

 

[JontyMC]

Create a custom page that inherits from System.Web.UI.Page. I have created quite a complex page that outputs XHTML compliant code, neatly formatted. It also uses a title property for setting a page title and properties for setting css links and script. The page contains header, footer and navigation that is used on every page. Then all I need to do to create a new page is inherit from that base class and put the content in.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[stsuing]

I've been using user controls to do what your saying. It simplifies things but is still a pain.

ASP.NET 2.0 will have a different method.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/wtxbf3hh.aspx

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/18042

 

[dragonwell]

Paul Wilson has developed a really nice MasterPages technique for ASP.NET 1.1.

http://authors.aspalliance.com/PaulWilson/Articles/?id=14

 

[jw970170]

hello again,

I've looked at those master pages sites you guys gave me. It would be perfect but it looks like it only runs with visual studio 2005. I am running 2003 and cannot upgrade at this time. Is there something similar in 2003?

 

[JontyMC]

Using page inheritance is much better and cleaner than custom controls, and will still be used in ASP.Net 2.

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/page_templates.asp

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[jw970170]

Ok, thanks everyone for your help. I did end up using page inheritance. It works quite well and was easy to implement once I figured out what I was doing. thanks for your suggestions everyone.

 

[jw970170]

one other thing. I was using some tutorial that used the render method to create the template. The one you (JontyMC ) gave me is better. However, I don't know how to set the title property . In my code, I have

Private strTitle As String = "asdaf"

Public Property Title() As String
Get
Title = strTitle
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As String)
strTitle = Value
End Set
End Property

in my base class. In my other class (which inherits the above one), I tried Me.Title = "new title adafdadf" but it did not work. Any ideas?

 

[JontyMC]

I presume your trying to add it to the page load method? You need to put it in the class constructor.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.