I'm wondering if you can add something to every page like Copyright information from the global.asax page. That way everypage gets it and you don't have to worry about forgetting to add it to each page.
I'm lazy and would like to add it to one page and all pages receive it. ;)

Is that wishful thinking or can it be accomplished?

I believe templates are going to be introduced in the Whidbey release of .net.

However, if you want to create your own, this should get you started:

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/1...k=DXRSS_DOTNET

J

Or you could try this as well...

http://www.geekdork.com/SkeletonCore

Peter
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Very interesting article. I've run into all the problems described and I'm looking forward to whidbey!

Thanks.

This is a solution I was thinking about. So far I have done what the article said stay away from. I have functions that build the html for the header and footer and left nav. I was thinking it would be nice to click on a link and based on the user's selection load a certain user control for the requested page. Peter, is that what skeletonCore offers? Or am I reading it wrong?

SkeletonCore provides functionality for creating templates. If you want a system where a certain user control is put onto the page based on some selection (determined by a value from the querystring or something like that) you'll have to build that yourself.

The point of SkeletonCore is that you can use it to create the basic structure of the application, and then each ASPX just provides the "content" for that page (instead of having essentially 1 ASPX page and many user controls with content). It also adds some functionality that you don't get with standard ASPX and ASCX pages that enhance the interoperability between pages and user controls.

Peter
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