Jeff and .NET

Nice, Brock.. Thanks for the blog Jeff.

It does seem a bit short sighted not to include this property - and still nothing in 3.5

Please, my english is not good, but...one question

Set the "Theme" property in the web.config file, dinamically...impossible? I 'm trying develop a dynamic CMS application using templates and I'need change the web site styles dinamically in run time.

Thanks!

Damián

In my last post I'forget comment: Right now, I'm set the theme page property in the OnPreInit override method.

But, on this way is neccesary repeat the same code in all the web site pages, for this reason I'm search other more efficient alternative.

Thanks!!!

You can create a new class called "BasePage" or "BaseClass" that inherits from System.Web.UI.Page, then you can override the preinit method where you can set the theme, once done all the page you will add or exist should inherit from the "BasePage" or "BaseClass" - code is shown below.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

namespace yournamespace

{

   public class BasePage : Page

   {

       public BasePage()

       {

       }

       protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)

       {

           base.OnPreInit(e);

           var themeName = "SiteTheme"; // Default theme

           if (Session["org"] != null)

           {

               switch (Session["org"].ToString()) //Change theme based on organization

               {

                   case "A": themeName = "A"; break;

                   case "B": themeName = "A"; break;

                   case "C": themeName = "A"; break;                  

               }

               this.Page.Theme = themeName; //Name of the theme folder found under "App_Themes"

           }

       }

   }

}