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[How Do I:] Use Skins with CSS for a Flexible and Maintainable ASP.NET Web Site

In this video Chris Pels shows how to create skins for ASP.NET server controls and then incorporate CSS styles to control the appearance of the skinned controls. First, learn how to create a skin for an ASP.NET server control such as a Label that controls the appearance of labels throughout a web site. Next, see how to abstract the definition of the visual appearance for a skin to CSS styles. During this process learn the advantages of having the styling information for a skin in the CSS styles. Then see how to create multiple skins and corresponding styles for a single ASP.NET control such as a Label that can be used to standardize the appearance of certain types of labels throughout a web site. Finally, learn the advantages of applying a CSS style to multiple skins and the ability to apply it to a generic HTML element.

Presented by Chris Pels

Duration: 29 minutes, 19 seconds

Date: 07 August 2008

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michael87nguyen : On August 12, 2008 1:00 PM said:

Thanks

80ulises : On August 13, 2008 2:35 AM said:

Excelent, thanks

funkyfraiser : On August 13, 2008 4:22 AM said:

Brilliant video, thanks a lot.

WebEye : On August 13, 2008 4:33 AM said:

Very good .....Thanks.

cv_vikram : On August 13, 2008 7:08 AM said:

thanks...

nd : On August 16, 2008 8:31 PM said:

good tutorial, though I still don't see the big benefit of skins. The same functionality can be accomplished just with style sheets, and you've kept your site a lot simpler.

KISS.

Rajesh.K : On August 23, 2008 12:19 AM said:

thanks

ak_friendz : On August 25, 2008 7:50 AM said:

Excellent, keep on work.

xjpmauricio : On August 26, 2008 10:01 AM said:

These are nice things to know of what we can achieve with some of the user controls on the .net framework but...please, get to know how to do this with javascript or other languages.

xjpmauricio : On August 26, 2008 10:02 AM said:

...anyway...you can see how it's done by looking at the generated client side code on your web page.

zubair01 : On September 13, 2008 9:30 PM said:

nice one...

daoxuanthai : On September 22, 2008 10:05 PM said:

good !

obimike_007 : On September 26, 2008 4:31 AM said:

THANKS

mcr_subbu : On October 03, 2008 9:38 AM said:

Very nicevedeo....Was very helpful!!!

amarbaboori : On October 30, 2008 7:49 AM said:

excellent video, easy to understand about skin

djibril_chimere_DIAW : On December 29, 2008 5:32 PM said:

Thanks! Jërëjëf!

bhofmann : On January 07, 2009 10:10 AM said:

Thanks for a good video.

You missed one gotcha that some viewers might fall into; namely if they are using ASp.NET authorization, and are specifying something like deny users="?", and allow users="*" to force logins, then this will affect the App_Themes folder as well. Simple solution is to add a web.config file to the App_Themes folder and specify allow users="*" in that web.config.