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Answer 1

+1 A:

You can create a COMMON user control for the same and add it to your master page in the top & bottom. You can create a property describing whether the control has loaded at the top or bottom.

Kirtan 2009-04-17 13:15:15

Answer 2

A:

Depending on the content you may be able to do this in code. If its just HTML just put it in a variable and assign it to the other. If you have controls, you can loop over the controls collection and create a duplicate control and place it in the other area. In either case the second location would not be a contentplaceholder a div should due.

Jeremy 2009-04-17 13:15:30

Answer 3

+2 A:

As others have said, depending on the content itself there are shortcuts that can be taken depending on the type of content that will be there.

Assuming however you need the "content" to be fully functioning asp.net code then I would suggest a UserControl for each ContentPage that contains the content itself and then you only need to duplicate one line of code.

Example

Master Page

<html>
    <body>
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Foo" runat="server">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
        <!-- page content -->
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Bar" runat="server">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
    </body>
</html>

Content Page

<asp:Content ID="Top" ContentPlaceHolderID="Foo" runat="server">
    <uc1:Page1Control id="page1Control1" runat="server" />
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Bottom" ContentPlaceHolderID="Bar" runat="server">
    <uc1:Page1Control id="page1Control2" runat="server" />
</asp:Content>

Robin Day 2009-04-17 13:23:55

Thanks for the response. This would work, but I feel like it would create more of a maintenance problem than repeating the code as I would need a separate control in a separate file for each page.

brad 2009-04-17 13:26:28

i agree, the only other think i can think of for now is looping through the controls and adding them dynamically. that will cause you no end of pain with event handlers though.

Robin Day 2009-04-17 13:30:34

I don't think I'm using any event handlers in those placeholders, just static html mostly, so this might work.

brad 2009-04-17 13:42:52

Answer 4

+3 A:

In the case where you just want to repeat a string, this worked for me:

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" />

Can be referenced elsewhere as:

<%  Dim title As LiteralControl = TitleContent.Controls.Item(0)
    Response.Write(title.Text)
%>

No warranty on that being the right course of action though :)

Dave 2009-08-31 16:38:26

A very good point Dave, I have actually played with this sort of thing in order to accomplish my goals.

brad 2009-08-31 17:38:10

Answer 5

+1 A:

Hey, if someone still needs a solution for this here is what I did: Put it in the Code File of your master page

protected override void RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
    Control mainPlaceHolder = FindControl("MainContentPlaceHolder");
    Control doublePlaceHolder = FindControl("ContentDoublePlaceHolder");

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
    using (HtmlTextWriter tw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
    {
        mainPlaceHolder.RenderControl(tw);
    }

    LiteralControl lc = new LiteralControl(sb.ToString());
    doublePlaceHolder.Controls.Add(lc);

    base.RenderChildren(writer);
}

I'm not sure about performance issues here, but it certainly works.

HeavyWave 2009-10-03 16:05:26

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