Hi! i'm newbie in masterpages....
This is my problem. I´m trying to make a masterpages with a header,footer and in the middle i want in the left to load an menu page (dinamycally loaded from database checkeing the user profile) and in the right of that the specific page content.
I think i need to put two contentplaceholders in the masterpage, and in the left one load the menu page, and in the right one put the specific page content that i want.
Where i say that in the left one i want to load the menu.aspx page? because if i do drag and drop from solution explorer it puts a link to de page, and that's not what i want.
Another question...why i can't resize the contentplaceholder? i'm putting it in a table and the cell it's bigger than the placeholder, but i can't resize it...
Thanks in advance. Guillermo.

I managed to get this to work by creating a masterpage with a contentplaceholder. I then created a web user control which got the navigation items I needed & placed them into another placeholder on the web user control (called nav_plc in the code below). The user control was then put into the master page content placeholder.

The code for the web user control got the the id & name of the pages I wanted to link to & put a literal control on the page for each of them:

while(dr.read())
{
   LiteralControl newLiteral = new LiteralControl();
   nav_plc.Controls.Add(newLiteral);
   newLiteral.Text = "<a href='" + whatever url it is, + stuff from your database " +"</a><br />";
}


So the MasterPage had a ContentPlaceHolder in it, which had WebUserControl.
The WebUserControl had a PlaceHolder (nav_plc) to which I added literal controls.

There's probably simpler ways of doing this (if anyone knows of any I'd love to know myself). But it did work.

Hope this helps.