Help with starting on master pages chapter 6

italianjob · September 22nd, 2009, 06:01 PM

I've followed everything so far (I think!) and when I add the master page in chapter 6, page 199 I don't get the same code as shown in the book, which then renders the later class code for checking the page title inoperable

The book shows the content <%@ Page ..... title="Untitled Page" %>
and I guess this gives the page it's default title, but my code shows:
<%@ Page Title="" Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage/MasterPage.master"
AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

There is no title section added automatically, should it be as show in the book?

Any help much appreciated,
Mark

Imar · September 23rd, 2009, 01:59 AM

Hi Mark,

Check out the errata for the book: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...Cd-ERRATA.html

This is a change introduced by Service Pack 1, released after the book was published. An empty string is now the new default page title instead of Untitled Page.

Hope this helps,

Imar

italianjob · September 23rd, 2009, 04:13 AM

Many thanks for the reply.
I actually found the errata notes about 5 minutes after posting my message!
I was convinced I was doing something wrong but then realised it must be something to do with the dev environment or a setting that I couldn't find.

I kept restarting chapter 6 from scratch and got the same problem every time, my only minor complaint perhaps is that chapter 6 is a bit long, or has too much content to be able to roll back your code once the master page/base page data is applied - or maybe I am too fussy!!!

Great book by the way!

Mark

Imar · September 23rd, 2009, 07:16 AM

Hi there,

What would there be to rollback (other than the issue with the title)? I am currently working in the 4.0 version of the book, so all feedback on improvement is welcome...

Imar

italianjob · September 29th, 2009, 03:27 PM

Sorry Imar, what I mean by roll back is that once the master page has been applied to the default.aspx or any other page, you can't undo it (at least I don't think you can?)
It's not a problem with the book!

Mark

Imar · September 29th, 2009, 06:45 PM

Yeah, that's correct. It's more an either / or scenario: either you choose a Master page or you don't.

You could remove the placeholders and manually copy content from a standard page into your original page Or, as explained in the book in reversed order, copy the contents, delete the page, create a new one without a master and paste the content.

But why would you want to switch?

Imar