Working with Master Page in ASP.NET 2.0

Master page:

The Master page is like that of the inherited form in Windows.NET. It is nothing but when you want to get the common look and feel of the particular part of your web we can go for master page.

For example: You may have a common header and footer or the user information in the entire page in the same format we can go for the master page concept.

It reduce much of your coding. We don't want to redo the same design in the entire page. And the highlight is when you change in the master page it will be automatically reflected in all the inherited forms. Now it becomes easy to maintain.

Now we will see how to work with master page. Here are the steps

Short Introduction about .NET 2005

Here the concept of IIS is partially eliminated instead we can create a web application in the ordinary directory as like that of windows application. The .net itself will take care of IIS i.e. internally it will create a database that will take care of IIS work.

• We can also create the web application as our .net 2003 in IIS
• We have the provision to create the application in FTP also.
• Lot of new controls has been introduced like login controls, Web Parts etc.
• It reduces much of the programmers work. The coding is much easy

Creating a Master Page

1. Open a new solution and include Masterpage2.master as in (Ref: Figure 1)

Figure 1

2. The master page will be included as follows in the solution (Ref: Figure 2)