Applying Themes to a Whole Website

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Applying Themes to a Whole Website

Jun 17th, 2008

Hi,

I have several themes that can be applied to pages on a website based on a users preferences. The problem is that the only way I know how to apply a theme to a website is to set the Page.Theme object in the page's PreInit event. This requires that code be placed on each and every page's PreInit event.

Is there any way to apply a theme globally (as in to all pages in a website) in just one location, such as a master page or the global.asax?

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Re: Applying Themes to a Whole Website

Jun 17th, 2008

yes you can do it via web.config file as follows :

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<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages theme="yourThemeName" />
</system.web>
</configuration>

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Re: Applying Themes to a Whole Website

Jun 18th, 2008

The reason that solution would not work for me is that theme must be set based on user preferences stored in some sort of datasource, right now an XML file, and thus would have to be set programmatically (rather than through the web.config file).

The solution I found does the trick. It's code to be placed in the global.asax file, which is exactly where i wanted it to be:

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    void Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object sender, EventArgs e)
 
    {
 
        Page page = Context.Handler as Page;
        String theme = "MyTheme";
        if (page != null)
 
        {
 
            page.Theme = theme;
 
        }
 
    }
 
    void Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        Page page = Context.Handler as Page;
        String theme = "MyTheme";
        if (page != null)

        {

            page.Theme = theme;

        }

    }