Global Theme directory?

skijor · July 30th, 2009, 06:35 PM

Hello Imar,

Is there a way to programmatically get all the Themes of a site? (I looked in the forum for this but I could not find it.)

For example I added a third theme called "Brown". I then added it to the dropDown ran the app and selected brown in the dropDown which created the cookie with my preferred theme. Then I closed the app deleted "Brown" from the dropDown and deleted the theme. So basically I decided to discontinue this theme. I still have brown in my preferredTheme cookie so I get an exception that says: Theme 'Brown' cannot be found in the application or global theme directories. Is the "global theme directories collection" a collection I can get to? (I can't find it anywhere.) The only way I can do it is via a string array and if it is not in the collection set it to the Page.Theme and I'm sure there is a better way. In the stack trace there was:System.Web.UI.Page.InitializeThemes() I thought I could put my code there and just do a try catch if failed then set it to Page.Theme, but I can't get to it.

I'm not sure where execution goes after this point:

Code:

private void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    HttpCookie preferredTheme = Request.Cookies.Get("PreferredTheme");
    if (preferredTheme != null)
    {
      Page.Theme = preferredTheme.Value;
    }
  }// Fails after leaving here

Thanks Imar

Imar · July 31st, 2009, 03:57 AM

Hi there,

AFAIK, you can'ty do this programmatically using an API. However, you can loop through the App_Themes folder and get the names from there:

Code:

string rootPath = Server.MapPath("~/App_Themes");
var themesFolders = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(rootPath);
foreach (string themeFolder in themesFolders)
{
  string theme = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(themeFolder).Name;
  Label1.Text += string.Format("{0}<br />", theme);
}

Hope this helps,

Imar

skijor · July 31st, 2009, 05:17 PM

Perfect! Thank you. You should see my sln it's a mess.

I wish the Forum for the book was organized by chapter, It would help me find things quicker as well as reduce the same questions you probably get over and over. I notice many people start the the thread with the chapter I'll do that from now on.

Thanks again

Imar · August 1st, 2009, 02:58 AM

Quote:

I notice many people start the the thread with the chapter I'll do that from now on.

Excellent idea, especially if you include the page number as well. That makes it easy for everyone to find relevant topics and easy for me to see what the question is about exactly.

Cheers,

Imar