Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Master Pages

A master page is a special page with .master extension, which provides a template containing a set of common elements for each page in the application. A master page typically contains elements such as headers, footers, and navigation elements so that you can implement a number of elements that each page can contain all at once. Visual Studio provides a specific item template for creating a master page, but the simplest way to understand how it works is to examine a basic one. When you create a new project using the ASP.NET Web Forms Application template, such as in the current example, the IDE adds a master page for you. As you can see, Visual Studio implements by default some links for navigating between pages, such as Home, Contact, ...