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ASP.NET 2.0 Themes/Skins

I've been doing a fair bit of work with ASP.NET 2.0 Themes the past day or two, and I have to say I'm impressed with it.   If you haven't heard about ASP.NET themes yet, they are a nifty new feature in ASP.NET 2 that allows you to quickly create a Skin/Theme structure for your web interface.    You can skin the controls that ship with ASP.NET and your own custom controls.  Skins can programmatic-ally be set on an application and global level, which is great for an application where the user selects their theme.   We took a set of themes we had done for an application and dropped them into our ASP.NET theme folders and within about 10 minutues had it hooked into the application, very cool.

For a good starter tutorial on it check out this one written by Bill Evjen.

3 Comments

  • I like that you can set a style sheet to be dynamically loaded to a page, because that's what skinning is all about. I'm not a huge fan of the per-control .skin file scheme at all.

  • Yep, the beauty is it automatically references all of your CSS at the top of the page, so the .skin file could be irrelevant if you just use CSS to control all of the visual and mechanical operations.

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