master-pages

How to use the site's masterpage from a _layout SharePoint page ?

Hi, I want to use a masterpagefile (the site's one if this makes sense) in my SharePoint 12 hive/template/layouts/TelephoneBookList/test.aspx file. However, whenever I add MasterPageFile="~/_layouts/simple.master" or something like that to my test.aspx page, I get a sharepoint error page and the following in the log file: 01/12/2009 10...

Google Analytics and Masterpage/User Control swapping

I'm using GA on my site and need to add tracking to a several pages. These pages are rendered by means of a master page in conjunction with a Telerik tab control. When a tab is selected, the code evaluates which tab was clicked and inserts the appropriate user control for that page and rerenders it. According to the browser, it's always ...

Can a 'content page' send simple 'properties' to a 'master page' ?

The basic idea of a masterpage is simple -- you have a block of content that you want to 'inject' into a location in a master page. Its very easy to figure this out without even reading the documentation about masterpages (which I admit to not having read!). What i want to do is pass 'properties' to a master page from its child. For i...

Creating nested master pages in ASP.NET Web Application

Is it possible to create nested master pages in an ASP.NET Web Application projects as one can do in ASP.NET Website projects? I am using Visual Studio 2008 and working on an ASP.NET Web Application. While creating a master page there is no option to choose another master page which if was available would have allowed me to create neste...

Different coloured fly out menu

Hi All, I'm creating a custom master page for a MOSS publishing site. The designers have come up with this idea for the fly out menu... which uses graduated/different backgrond and text colours for each menu option. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? ...

.Net Master Page Perfomance

I'm looking for some help on my discussion. We're discussing two solutions to a customization problem. One uses (nested) master-pages. One master page per customized page. Plus there is a standard master page for all pages. The second uses a standard page, which redirects to the custom page if it exists. My question is, which is m...

ASP.NET MVC Master Pages

What's the difference between the ASP.NET Master Page, and the MVC Master Page? And the AJAX Master Page for that matter? ...

Implementing a 'reverse' or 'nested' master page with ASP.NET

I'm hoping my cryptic title isn't too cryptic, but I'll try to explain what it is I actually want to do. I have a master page 'A' which has child pages 'B' and 'C'. This is implemented with the standard master page model in ASP.NET just fine. My site has two themes 'T1' and 'T2'. They actually represent different partners, T1 being o...

How to set the Theme for an ASP.NET site in a 'gateway' page?

I want to be able to set an ASP.NET Theme in a gateway page, which will determine the theme based upon a partner id or something like that. I figure I'd just stick the theme name in session and get it from there if I need it. I'm having trouble finding the right place to put this code in a single place. I cannot seem to see a global p...

ASP.NET - Accessing Master Page elements form the Content Page

Can the elements of the Master Page be accessed from the Content Page? Lets say I have MasterPage1 and ContentPage1 that inherits from the MasterPage1, and the MasterPage1 has a button: Button1. Can I change the property of that button from the content page, for example to make Button1 invisible, inactive etc? How can I accomplish this...

Can you change a master page's ContentPlaceHolder's Content Page Asynchronously in .NET?

From what I've already read this appears to be impossible, but I wanted to see if anyone out there has a secret trick up their sleeve or at least a definitive "no". Supposedly a master page is really just a control for a content page to use, not actually the "master" of a content page. If I wanted to go from one content page, to anot...

Can I dynamically add HTML within a div tag from C# on load event?

Mind you, I am using master pages, but can I locate a div within the page and throw some html in there? Thanks. ...

How to consolidate ASP.NET master pages across applications?

Hello, First shot at throwing a question on these boards so hopefully I can get some help, here goes: I am working to start up the .NET practice at my client. We have 5 small scale .NET applications in place currently with a few them of them live into production. They're mostly small reporting pieces with some data entry/business logic...

Using nested Master Pages

Hi. I'm very new to ASP.NET, help me please understand MasterPages conception more. I have Site.master with common header data (css, meta, etc), center form (blank) and footer (copyright info, contact us link, etc). <%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Site.master.cs" Inherits="_SiteMaster" %> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC...

ASP.NET Page calls an additional aspx page after loading

To keep things simple, we have a few aspx pages... Page1.aspx - resets Session information. Page2.aspx - Search form with results and sets Session variables. Page3.aspx, Page4.aspx, Page5.aspx - require Session variables set on Page2.aspx What we're finding is that as Page2.aspx loads and setting the Session variables, Page1.aspx is ...

Display different header depending on page selected

I have an asp.net website with 5 items (home, products, news, about, contact) on the main horizontal navigation. The site uses a master page which splits the page into a header, body and footer using I want to be able to display a different header (which will include different colors and images) depending on which of the 5 navigation ...

How do I force a new site collection to inherit a master page?

I have some code that creates a new site in SharePoint. Upon browsing to the newly created site, a File Not Found error is thrown. If you browse to /_layouts/ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx you can select a new site master & system master page, and the site works fine. This kb article describes my symptoms perfectly: http://support.microsof...

How should I integrate session state into an ASP.NET MVC application?

I'm looking for thoughts on how should I use Session in an ASP.NET MVC application? Especially when using masterpages and tryin to just get the data to the masterpage without bypassing the controller. This question started off by me asking a lot of little questions, but then I managed to mould it into a solution which as yet I have not i...

Setting page title from @ Page directive in ASP.NET using master pages

I am using master pages and am having trouble setting page titles from the @ Page directive. All of my classes inherit from a class myPage which inherits from the ASP.NET System.Web.UI.Page class. Please Note: I have runat="server" set in my master page's head tag. Here's what my @ Page directives look like for the file test.aspx.vb: ...

How do I reference an ASP.net MasterPage from App_Code

I'm working on a .net 3.5 site, standard website project. I've written a custom page class in the sites App_Code folder (MyPage). I also have a master page with a property. public partial class MyMaster : System.Web.UI.MasterPage { ... private string pageID = ""; public string PageID { get { return pageID; } ...