Chapter 6-pg 231: Theme Switching

kreynazpm · May 22nd, 2014, 12:57 PM

I am having trouble switching between the themes. At first, I was having trouble with no themes being applied after I completed page 231 and removed the styleSheetTheme in the web.config file.
I then set some breakpoints and found that my ThemeList_SelectedIndexChanged in the masterpage code behind file was not firing. From there, I found that VS2010 did not set the event handler in the properties window automatically when I double clicked on the dropdownlist earlier in chapter 6.
After setting the selectedindexchanged event handler, my website will now display the DarkGrey theme properly, but when I switch to the Monochrome it becomes just a "plain jane" website.

Is the Monochrome theme supposed to be plain at this point in the book?

Imar · May 23rd, 2014, 11:28 AM

Hi there,

Did you also carry out the exercise that applies the theme in the Page_Load method of the BasePage?

If so, something must be wrong with your code. Can you post the code for your master page, basepage and web.config so I can see all the relevant parts of the theme switcher?

Imar

kreynazpm · May 23rd, 2014, 02:15 PM

This morning, I was comparing the monochrome.css file in my website to the two in the source and resource files. I found that mine was lacking quite a bit so I copied the one out of the resource file a second time. Apparently, it did not copy everything the first time around. Everything is working great now!

Thank you for your time and the great book you have written.

-Kurt

Imar · May 23rd, 2014, 02:39 PM

Hi Kurt,

At some point, the book instructs you to copy the entire Monochrome file from the book's Resources folder into your web site, overwriting your own file. Maybe you missed that step?

Cheers,

Imar