Some authors suggest going all the way with web user controls; e.g.
- Header user control
- Menu
- MainContent
- Sidebar
- Footer
etc.
What best practices/rules can you suggest, and some rational for choosing?
Thanks for your help,
Michael Kaftor

Hi there,

That sounds a bit like pre ASP.NET 2 advice to me. By using master pages, you don't really need to include these kind of elements in a user control. You can centrally manage them from the master page. As shown in the book, you can program against the controls in the master page (swapping out a Menu for a TreeView in the DarkGrey theme for example).

If you have the need to replace them at run-time (switch between two versions) or have other cases for reuse, you could still do it. But I rarely do.

Cheers,

Imar

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