How to compile a Master page in a separate assembly?

[Bob]

In ASP.NET 1.1, I had a class library with a bunch of base classes for all
my projects. One of the base class is a base page class. In .NET 2.0, how
can I compile a master page into a separate DLL? If I select class library
project type in VS 2005, it doesn't compile the code in the master page code
front file correctly. If I create a web project, it doesn't result in a
single DLL like before. How can I get around this issue?

The whole idea is to wrap the basic page layout in the base page (or master
page) in a compiled assembly, so the downstream projects can simply
reference the class without the ability to modify the page layout.

Thanks
Bob

 

[Bruce Barker]

in 2.0, just like 1.1, all pages are compiled into seperate dll's. in 1.1,
vs compiled the codebehinds into a dll, but there was still one dll per
page.

anyway to do what you want, create a class project for the master page, and
use the aspnet_compiler.exe (custom build command), to build the dll.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)