Porting Existing Master Pages

One of the options when creating new master pages in SharePoint 2010 is to use an existing master page. For instance, there’ll be instances where you have an existing ASP.NET 2.0, or earlier, master page that you’d like to implement as part of your SharePoint 2010 deployment. However, there are considerations around doing this, including applying the existing .NET site’s skin and theming, which are examined in this section.

It’s possible that you might be faced with upgrading an existing SharePoint 2007 master page to SharePoint 2010. For more information about this, refer to “Upgrading an Existing Master Page to the SharePoint Foundation Master Page” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee539981.aspx and ...

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