One slick little feature
Fritz
Onion discussed at
the CampSight event was using Themes/Skins. This topic was nothing new for
me, but what I had never considered was what
Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 do for you, even if you have no intention of
"skinning" your Web site. Quite simply, the ease of managing styles with this
new feature makes it very elegant and powerful.
For example, I can make a configuration as easy as this...
<!-- Web.Config -->
<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
<system.web>
<pages theme="Theme1"></pages>
Create a new App_Themes folder that contains a .skin file and a .css file
like this...
<! SkinFile.skin -->
<asp:TextBox runat="server" BackColor="Yellow"></asp:TextBox>
<!-- CSS file -->
input
{
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size:larger
}
And we end up with the powerful combination of client-side CSS and
server-side skinning ability...
I'm sure having yellow text boxes with ridiculous font is very useful to you,
but I'm positive that the concept is. :-)
