I'm working through the Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 book chapter by chapter and I'm in Chapter 7 page 258...when I noticed that the Theme (either "darkgrey" or "monochrom") is not sticking when I click on a menu link. Actually it sticks (or works fine) for Home and Login...but does not work correctly for the other links like Review or Contact Us. If the PageTheme is set to "monochrome" in the web.config file and the Theme is set to "darkgrey" in the drop down box...if I click on any of the Review or About links I get a new page in the "monochrome" theme not the "darkgrey" theme. How do I fix this? Also, I looked at the code behind in the master page and it appears correct...I also looked at the source in the browser and it says 'theme="monochrome"'.

Thanks for your help,
Jim

Jim Walker

Hi Jim,

Do these pages inherit from the central BasePage class?

BTW: you're better off posting questions like this in the book's own forum category here at p2p.wrox.com. Makes it easier for everyone to find and answer them.

Cheers,

Imar


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Imar:

Thanks for your response...actually I thought I was responding to the books forum...so forgive me messing that up.

These are the new folders/pages you had us create in Chapter 7...the About folder and Reviews folder...I created them from the 'master page' but I'm not sure how to make them 'inherit' from the central basepage? But that sounds like that could be what is wrong.

Please advise...

Thanks in advance!
Jim

P.S. Good Job and Great book!!!
Jim Walker

Imar:

I checked all the pages in the About and Reviews folder and they all have an Inherits= statement on line one...but the vaule is the name of each individual page...for example the About/Contact.aspx page has (Inherits="About_Contact")...I checked the Login page which is working correctly and it has (Inherits="Login")...so I'm not sure if there is something else I'm missing.

Thanks again,
Jim

Jim Walker

Hi Jim,

It's about the code in COde Behind.

Usually, you have something like this:

Public Class MyPage
     Inherits System.UI.Web.Page


That should be replaced with:

Public Class MyPage
     Inherits BasePage

Creating a base page and templates that use it by default is discussed extensively in chapter 6, most notably page 206 - 213.

Maybe you skipped a chapter? It's quite an important topic...

Imar




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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB, ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Dreamweaver MX 2004
Want to be my colleague? Then check out this post.