Adding Skins to Themes
A Theme can contain one or more Skin files. A Skin enables you to modify any of the properties of an ASP.NET control that have an effect on its appearance.
For example, imagine that you decide that you want every TextBox control in your web application to appear with a yellow background color and a dotted border. If you add the file in Listing 6.1 to the Simple Theme (the App_Themes\Simple folder), you can modify the appearance of all TextBox controls in all pages that use the Simple Theme.
Listing 6.1. Simple\TextBox.skin
The Skin file in Listing 6.1 is named TextBox.skin. You can name a Skin file anything you want. ...
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