I am in need of applying the skins and themes in asp.net to my asp.net mvc2 applicatoin too. however i need to figure out the best way to apply the theme and skins in the mvc framework.
kindly suggest me the folder structure and how to apply them to different views. even though the css can do all stylings, i would like to get an insight into using these.
I would like to know how can I change the themes and skins or (CSS) dynamically and what are the basic requirements for it. Is there any design structure must be same..? Following are my requirements. E.g. we have 3 themes. Theme1, Theme2 and Theme3. Designations are. Employee, Manager and Sen.Manager And I want to assign Theme1 to Employee and Theme2 to Manager and Theme3 to Sen.Manager. After Employee gets promoted to Manager the Theme2 must be assign to him. And when they login there Theme and skin must be change according to his designation. Hope you can understand.
View 5 RepliesMicrosoft has a new website editing tool: WebMatrix. WebMatrix uses the new Web Pages engine in which Razor is the view engine; Razor is also the new view engine for MVC3. I am attempting to find out if it is possible to register and use a different view engine in Web Pages (like you can in MVC).Does anyone know if it is possible to add or replace the view engine in Web Pages? If so has anyone documented this? Examples?
View 2 RepliesI use ASP.NET C# in a Web Application Project (not web site).
I would like use ASP.NET Theme feature for my Web Application.
From the root of my project I am able to create a special folder App_Themes
Root/App_Themes --WORKS
but I need have App_Themes folder in a different level, in my case:
Root/Cms/App_Themes --DOES NOT WOEK
I notice that Visual Studio does not allow insert an App_Themes in a sub folder.
I am trying to figure out if Global Themes will be something our department could use. However, I am a little unclear on it. Can you basically just have one theme? Either a theme from the Global directory or one from the application theme folder? Or is there a way to use both at the same time?
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to figure out how to use skins, and I'm a bit baffled by one thing. When I place a skin file in the "root" of the theme I'm working on, it works great. However, if I try to make a folder to put it in, it fails. I cannot seem to locate any particular information that describes why this is. This is what works:
/App_Themes/App_Themes/MyTheme/App_Themes/MyTheme/MySkin.skin
This is what I'd prefer, but does not work
/App_Themes/App_Themes/MyTheme/App_Themes/MyTheme/skins/App_Themes/MyTheme/skins/MySkin.skin
I'm writing a SaaS application with a web front end written in ASP.NET. I'm not much of a designer, and my ASP.NET knowledge is not yet at the expert level - I usually focus on server side stuff - but I have a basic master page and style sheets, which do the trick.
Now I want to offer my customers the ability to customize their web site with their own style sheets, colors, background pictures etc. so that their customers will log onto their portal at mycustomer.mydomain.com and see the skin that "mycustomer" has chosen.
I'm using a skin file, and within the skin, I'm applying all the settings using CSS. I've got most parts working, but how do I set 'CellPadding="1" CellSpacing="3"' using CSS?
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<asp:GridView runat="server" GridLines="None" AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True" CssClass="GridView" CellPadding="1" CellSpacing="3">
Just upgraded to VWD2010. I created a skin file and put it in App_Themes. I created a skin id for a couple of controls: gridview, dropdown etc. Normally in the properties you can go to skinid and a drop down with the skin id shows up and you can select it. Thats not happening. Also, if I put my skinid in for the skinid property of the component its not displaying the formating at all. For example: Here is what I have for a gridview in my skin file named /App_Themes/Default/Default.skin
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I seem to be having an issue with our meta-tags as they are not being picked up by search engines. It has nothing to do with the fact that I don't know how to create them, but I think it has to do with the way we need to set up our site with our hosting company. Our hosting company requires that we have a page called Default.asp with a script that forwards requests to default.aspx which is currently set up as follows:
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The Default.aspx page uses a master page. Our meta-tag is currently setup to index the default.asp page, but not to index or follow any other pages on the site. I also have a robot.txt file that states not index or follow any of the pages within the web site. Do I have the meta-tags in the wrong place? Should they be in the Default.aspx page or on the master page instead? If so, how do I format my tags, as if I just copy and paste them, get all sorts of issues.
I have done some refactoring on a asp.net mvc application already deployed to a live web site. Among the refactoring was moving functionality to a new controller, causing some urls to change. Shortly after the various search engine robots start hammering the old urls.What is the right way to handle this in general?
Ignore it? In time the SEs should find out that they get nothing but 400 from the old urls.Block old urls with robots.txt?Continue to catch the old urls, then redirect to new ones? Users navigating the site would never get the redirection as the urls are updated through-out the new version of the site. I see it as garbage code - unless it could be handled by some fancy routing?Other?
Whats the best recommended way yo hide my staging website from search engines, i Googled it and found some says that i should put a metatag, and some said that i should put a text file inside my website directory, i want to know the standard way.
my current website is in asp.net, while i believe that it must be a common way for any website whatever its programming language.
I have recently adapted a project and I would like some help with the problem. I have a textbox on a webpage. When someone enters a string and submits the page, I want to search search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc and display the results according to relevance from the various search engines.
I have currently looked into the httpwebrequest and related classes. Also, I am new to ASP.NET, 17, and want to do this as a school project.
I have never used skins before, so I went online and found some samples. I am trying to get ANY skin to work, so I have an incredibly simple site, a master page, the default.aspx, the skin file. I am missing something because as near as I can tell my skin file is set up correctly and I THINK I am doing it all correctly, but the skin file / contents seems to be ignored. Here is the master page, all I am trying to do is change the colour of the submit button. I figure once I get the skin recognized the rest should be easy...
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My default.aspx has NO changes to it. I created a new one added nothing so I am not displaying it here. In my App_Themes directory a new folder called 'First' was created. In that folder is a file called 'First.skin'. The contents of First.skin is: [Code]....
Maybe there is something in the web.config that the people who made the samples assumed I would know about... not sure.
Still new. What can I add to my site to get picked up by serch engines without paying for services? Right now if I do a search My site does not appear.
View 8 RepliesHow can I stop Search engines firing events.....
I have a button that adds a product to my shopping basket. it has a postbackurl="../shoppingbasket.aspx?productID=1" when the page is loaded I get the querystring (ProductID) and add it to my database. Well I have been watching the database and I can see that in 1 day the whole of my product range has been added to the shopping basket, not only that but every time it fires the event it creates a NEW basket thus messing up my shopping basket ID's.
So my question is, I want the search engines to index my product pages, BUT I do not want then to add to my basket ( i.e. firing the postbackurl ) I have tried may things like rel="nofollow" adding the URL to my robot.txt. I don't really want to use recaptha as I have do before and have many complaits about it.
I am using asp.net 2010, and I would like to know how can I go about completely hiding a particular page from search engines, similar to how Facebook's security settings are set (for example, if I search for my real name, my fb page will now show up in google).
View 3 RepliesIs there any way to achieve adding runat="server" parameter to all ASP.NET controls by using skins?
View 1 RepliesI am a beginner in ASP.Net. I want to know what is CSS, Themes and Skin in ASP.Net? and How to create and use these things in ASP.Net? Please explain with simple example.
View 1 RepliesWhat is the best practice to apply different themes to different customers with asp.net.
View 4 RepliesI am using the UrlRewriter.NET library to perform URL rewriting. I noticed that themes do not work properly as the browser tries to retrieve the CSS file incorrectly.
The link tag generated by ASP.NET automatically is as follows:
<link href="App_Themes/vertebrata/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
URL typed into browser: localhost:1708/BloggingEngine/aa Displays fine
URL typed into browser: localhost:1708/BloggingEngine/aa/ Browser does not load the CSS file
I can probably fix the problem by prefixing a "/" before the URL in the href attribute, but this is dynamically generated by ASP.net depending on selected theme and I have no control over it.
How do I get ASP.net to load themes properly?
I have a portfolio website I am building for fun, I am graduating about this time next year. I have added ASP.NET themes to this portfolio website, and I have added themes to other ASP.NET sites before. I really love the feature! I have been noticing though that other sites (not asp.net that I've seen) change "Themes" without the page refreshing and I understand its probably just changing which CSS the site is using. Is there a way to do something like this in ASP.NET 4.0?
I am just setting the default theme in the web.config, and then setting a session variable through a couple asp:ImageButton's, then in the Page_PagePrePreInit setting the page.theme to the session variable. This is my first time taking that route, I usually use "profiles" to save the theme info.
I am working on asp.net website and i want to implement themes on my site. If i select any theme then it will change whole UI not only colors. After Change it will show a new User interface. Like change in div size, width and location same for controls and same all html tag that is used in page.
I got lot of example of themes where it it changing only UI color.
Change themes in asp.net 2.0
View 3 RepliesI think i understand the benefit of using themes but I want to be sure I understand correctly. I have previously used css to style my pages. I'm thinking about using themes in my next project. It provides a way to switch between the visual style of web controls and html elements. This could be done by allowing the user to choose a theme that is to their liking.
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