Can someone explain to me why the Fan profile page loses the theme set on the profile when hitting the 'Save' button? If I set my profile to WroxBlue, I get the blue theme on all my pages, except after hitting the 'Save' button, and the Server.Transfer call is executed. Moving to a different page immediately shows the blue theme again. Thanks.

Hi there,

I don't have the book so I don't know about the actual implementation, but it could be by design. A Click handler of a button fires quite late in the page's life cycle. A theme on the other hand needs to be set very early in the process. So, if you collect the theme during a postback, you're too late to set it for the current request.

I dealt with the same problem in my book Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB.NET by forcing a redirect to the same page after the theme was stored. This causes a new request which allows you to apply the theme in the early staages of the page life cycle.

Hope this helps,

Imar

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