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ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook

Name: ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
Author: Wei-Meng Lee
ISBN: 9780596008123

by Wei-Meng Lee

June 2005

Intermediate to advanced

348 pages

7h 40m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
The Developer’s Notebook Series
Notebooks Are...Notebooks Aren’t...Organization
Preface
Who This Book Is ForHow This Book Is OrganizedWhere Can I Learn More?What You Need to Use This BookConventions Used in This BookUsing Code ExamplesSafari® EnabledI’d Like to Hear from YouComments and QuestionsAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author
1. What’s New?
1.1. Create a New Web Project1.1.1. How do I do that?1.1.2. What about...1.1.3. Where can I learn more?1.2. Use Multiple Languages1.2.1. How do I do that?1.2.2. What about...1.2.3. Where can I learn more?1.3. Set the Focus of Controls1.3.1. How do I do that?1.3.2. What about...1.3.3. Where can I learn more?1.4. Define Multiple Validation Groups on a Page1.4.1. How do I do that?1.4.2. What about...1.4.3. Where can I learn more?1.5. Insert Client Script into a Page1.5.1. How do I do that?1.5.2. What about...1.5.3. Where can I learn more?1.6. Post to Another Page1.6.1. How do I do that?1.6.2. What about...1.6.3. Where can I learn more?1.7. Selectively Display Groups of Controls1.7.1. How do I do that?1.7.2. What about...1.7.3. Where can I learn more?1.8. Upload Files to Your Web Site1.8.1. How do I do that?1.8.2. What about...1.8.3. Where can I learn more?1.9. Create an Image Map1.9.1. How do I do that?1.9.2. What about...1.9.3. Where can I learn more?
2. Master Pages and Site Navigation
2.1. How do I do that?2.1.1. What about...2.1.2. Where can I learn more?2.2. Use a Master Page as a Content Page Template2.2.1. How do I do that?2.2.2. What just happened?2.2.3. What about...2.2.4. Where can I learn more?2.3. Modify a Master Page at Runtime2.3.1. How do I do that?2.3.2. What just happened?2.3.3. What about...2.3.4. Where can I learn more?2.4. Create a Site Map for Your Web Site2.4.1. How do I do that?2.4.2. How it works2.4.3. What about...2.4.4. Where can I learn more?2.5. Display Hierarchical Data Using the TreeView Control2.5.1. How do I do that?2.5.2. What about...2.5.3. Where can I learn more?2.6. Populate a TreeView Control Programmatically2.6.1. How do I do that?2.6.2. What about...2.6.3. Where can I learn more?2.7. Display Drop-Down Menus Using the Menu Control2.7.1. How do I do that?2.7.2. What about...2.7.3. Where can I learn more?
3. Web Parts
3.1. How do I do that?3.1.1. What about...3.1.2. Where can I learn more?3.2. Create a Personalizable Custom Web Part3.2.1. How do I do that?3.2.2. What just happened?3.2.3. What about...3.2.4. Where can I learn more?3.3. Let Users Move Web Parts3.3.1. How do I do that?3.3.2. What just happened?3.3.3. What about...3.3.4. Where can I learn more?3.4. Let Users Add Web Parts at Runtime3.4.1. How do I do that?3.4.2. What about...3.4.3. Where can I learn more?3.5. Let Users Edit Web Parts at Runtime3.5.1. How do I do that?3.5.2. What about...3.5.3. Where can I learn more?3.6. Enable Web Parts to Talk to Each Other3.6.1. How do I do that?3.6.2. What about...3.6.3. Where can I learn more?
4. Data Access
4.1. Display Data in a Table4.1.1. How do I do that?4.1.2. What about...4.1.3. Where can I learn more?4.2. Sort and View Records on Multiple Pages4.2.1. How do I do that?4.2.2. What about...4.2.3. Where can I learn more?4.3. Edit and Delete Records4.3.1. How do I do that?4.3.2. What about...4.3.3. Where can I learn more?4.4. Display One Record at a Time4.4.1. How do I do that?4.4.2. What about...4.4.3. Where can I learn more?4.5. Cache the Data Source Control4.5.1. How do I do that?4.5.2. What about...4.5.3. Where can I learn more?4.6. Cache Using Dependency4.6.1. How do I do that?4.6.2. What about...4.6.3. Where can I learn more?4.7. Encrypt Connection Strings4.7.1. How do I do that?4.7.2. What about...4.7.3. Where can I learn more?4.8. Connect to a Business Object4.8.1. How do I do that?4.8.2. What about...4.8.3. Where can I learn more?4.9. Connect to an XML Document4.9.1. How do I do that?4.9.2. What about...4.9.3. Where can I learn more?
5. Security
5.1. Create a Login Page Using the New Security Controls5.1.1. How do I do that?5.1.2. How does it work?5.1.3. What about...5.1.4. Where can I learn more?5.2. Add Users with WAT5.2.1. How do I do that?5.2.2. What just happened?5.2.3. What about...5.2.4. Where can I learn more?5.3. Restrict Unauthorized Access to Pages5.3.1. How do I do that?5.3.2. What about...5.3.3. Where can I learn more?5.4. Recover Passwords for Users5.4.1. How do I do that?5.4.2. What about...5.4.3. Where can I learn more?5.5. Let Users Change Passwords5.5.1. How do I do that?5.5.2. What about...5.5.3. Where can I learn more?5.6. Create Accounts with CreateUserWizard5.6.1. How do I do that?5.6.2. What about...5.6.3. Where can I learn more?5.7. Group Users into Roles5.7.1. How do I do that?5.7.2. What about...5.7.3. Where can I learn more?5.8. Manage User Settings5.8.1. How do I do that?5.8.2. What about ...5.8.3. Where can I learn more?
6. Performance
6.1. How do I do that?6.1.1. What about...6.1.2. Where can I learn more?6.2. Dynamically Generate Web Service Proxy Classes6.2.1. How do I do that?6.2.2. What about...6.2.3. Where can I learn more?6.3. Precompile Your Site6.3.1. How do I do that?6.3.2. What about...6.3.3. Where can I learn more?6.4. Cache Fragments of a Page6.4.1. How do I do that?6.4.2. What about...6.4.3. Where can I learn more?6.5. Lower the Cost of Server Callbacks6.5.1. How do I do that?6.5.2. What about...6.5.3. Where can I learn more?
7. Profiles
7.1. Personalize Your Application7.1.1. How do I do that?7.1.2. What just happened?7.1.3. What about...7.1.4. Where can I learn more?7.2. Authenticate Users with Forms Authentication7.2.1. How do I do that?7.2.2. What about...7.2.3. Where can I learn more?7.3. Save Anonymous User Profiles7.3.1. How do I do that?7.3.2. What about...7.3.3. Where can I learn more?7.4. Transfer an Anonymous Profile to an Authenticated Profile7.4.1. How do I do that?7.4.2. What about...7.4.3. Where can I learn more?

8. Themes, Skins, and Localization
8.1. Create Themes and Skins8.1.1. How do I do that?8.1.2. What just happened?8.1.3. What about...8.1.4. Where can I learn more?8.2. Apply Themes at Runtime8.2.1. How do I do that?8.2.2. What about...8.2.3. Where can I learn more?8.3. Store Themes in User Profiles8.3.1. How do I do that?8.3.2. What about...8.3.3. Where can I learn more?8.4. Localize Your Application8.4.1. How do I do that?8.4.2. What just happened?8.4.3. What about...8.4.4. Where can I learn more?
Index
About the Author
Colophon
Copyright

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Chapter 8. Themes, Skins, and Localization

Designing a consistent and friendly user interface for a web application is an integral part of every developer’s job. Yet, this seemingly easy job requires a lot of planning and architecting to ensure a clean separation of UI from business logic.

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Learn how to maintain a consistent look and feel for your web site by creating themes and skins for your web server controls.

Create Themes and Skins

Most web designers use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to give their web sites a consistent look and feel. In ASP.NET 2.0, you can now create themes and skins that extend a consistent look and feel to your server controls. In this lab, you will learn how to create skins for your web controls and how to group them into themes.

While both themes and CSS stylesheets let you apply common sets of attributes to web pages, they do have their differences:

Themes can define properties of controls, such as the images to be used for an ImageMap control. CSS stylesheets, on the other hand, can define only certain sets of style properties.
Theme property values always override local property values, while stylesheets can cascade.

Note that you can use themes and CSS together.

Themes and skins allow you to cleanly separate your UI into layers, separating form from function. This greatly increases the manageability of your project.

How do I do that?

In this lab, you’ll create some skin files and group them into a theme. Then, you’ll apply ...

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Chapter 8. Themes, Skins, and Localization

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