[How Do I:] Create User Selectable Themes for a Web Site

Excellect Learning Tutorial For the Newcomers. Absolutely Brillent Effert from The Microsoft.Helpful and Easy to understand.

great, just what I need for my BI website

I really like Chris' videos. His teaching style is very articulate and easy to understand. Although this video is essentially about changing site themes, he introduces a whole range of other concepts that can be used in all of your projects: master pages, inheritance, base classes. The amount one can learn from him in only 15 mins makes watching them really worthwhile.  I wish Microsoft would allow him to create a whole library of asp.NET videos for us.

tfs...

A couple of points to round this tutorial off that many will know but some may not.

At the end of the video Chris neds up with an unwanted dependancy. You do not want classes having to know or depend on the internal names of controls in other classes.

This can be easily eradicated by having the masterpage implementing an interface that exposes the dropdown list.

The BasePage can then cast the masterpage to this interface, and if the cast is successful, use the property exposed to get a handle to the DropDownList.

In addition, Chris did not mention that the (default) theme can be set in Web.config, as an attribute to the pages element.

Very Good Video. Was helpful!! Thanks.

Thanks! Jërëjëf!

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Helpful and Easy to understand

Very useful, thanks!

Your C# code doesn't run. Needs link to BasePage. Other than that it was a good video.