Developing Websites using Themes (Themes in Web Configuration File): Part 6

Introduction

We have lots of choices to work with Themes management. Rather than add the Theme or StyleSheetTheme attribute to each and every page to which we want to apply a Theme, we can register a Theme for all pages in your application in the web configuration file.

The Web.Config file given below applies the Site Theme to every page in an application.

Web.config Code

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>

<pages theme="Simple" />

</system.web>
</configuration>

In above configuration file I have used <page theme="Simple" />, we also can use <pages styleSheetTheme="Simple" />. This tag helps to apply the theme in entire pages. The code given below has even no <%@ Page Language="VB" Theme="Simple" %> underlined tag but theme will work that is only because of configuration settings.

Default.aspx Code

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<asp:Calendar
id="Calendar1"
Runat="server" />

</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

The page given below has the EnableTheming="false" in head declaration so this page will not use the configuration theme settings.

Default2.aspx Code

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default2.aspx.vb" Inherits="Default2" EnableTheming="false"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<asp:Calendar
id="Calendar1"
Runat="server" />

</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Note: Continue in next part.

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