October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
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Loading Master Pages Dynamically
You can associate different Master Pages dynamically with a content page. This is useful in two situations.
First, you can enable the users of your website to customize the appearance of the website by loading different Master Pages. You can display a menu of Master Pages and allow your users to pick their favorite layout.
Another situation in which loading Master Pages dynamically is useful concerns co-branding. Imagine that your company needs to make its website look like a partner website. When users link to your website from the partner website, you don’t want users to know that they are traveling to a new website. You can maintain this illusion by dynamically loading different Master Pages based on a query ...