ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Creating Type and Entity-Specific Templates

Having the ability to make changes to every piece of your website with a single code change is powerful but also not necessarily the most prudent way to make changes. It brings up the old hitting-a-nail-with-a-sledgehammer analogy. After you make your subtle changes to the shared templates, you might want to make changes to the templates for a single entity.

To do this, you make use of the CustomPages folder. For this exercise, we modify the list template for the ZombieSightings table so that we are not using auto-generated columns and we have a bit more control over how this grid displays.

To start, create a new folder called ZombieSightings under the CustomPages folder. Make a copy of the List.aspx ...