Master Pages

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Murphy

I have read the articles by Paul Wilson regarding master pages, and apart
from being totally confused I would like to clarify the following before
investing any further time on researching these concepts.

Are master pages reliable or are they a buggy concept ?
I understand master pages will be included in the next version of the
framework ?
Is there a reason not to use them presently ?
Where can I obtain further documentation of the implementation of master
pages as there is little to accompany Paul's work.

Thanks

Murphy
 
1. The concept is solid.
2. Yes in next version of Visual studio and .NET
3. There is no such thing as Mater pages presently. There are custom
implementations of them with some unavoidable limitations. You can use them
if it works for your project. Did not work for me.

George.
 
I just wanted to followup on this as well. If you're looking for a good free Master Pages solution, check out Andy Smith's Master Pages at http://www.metabuilders.com I've used it on my personal site and for our sites at work. They're great!

Matt Hawley, MCAD .NET
http://www.eworldui.net

1. The concept is solid.
2. Yes in next version of Visual studio and .NET
3. There is no such thing as Mater pages presently. There are custom
implementations of them with some unavoidable limitations. You can use them
if it works for your project. Did not work for me.

George.
 
Thanks George,

May I ask why they did not work for you as I would prefer not to find a
glitch after 1 month of coding.

Thanks

Murphy
 
The biggest problem is inability to split the form tag. A lot of template
approaches do not even touch this topic. They assume that you should have
your FORM where CONTENT of the page. Thus killing an idea of having server
control somewhere in a header.
This did not work for me.

But someone gave this link yesterday
http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/MasterPages.aspx

And i found it works well. Also it fixes a bug which .NET has with nested
Server controls.

It seems to be working pretty good. The only problem is that you can not use
the design mode of visual studio to change HTML.

But real programmers using Notepad anyway :)



George.
 
George Ter-Saakov said:
The biggest problem is inability to split the form tag. A lot of template
approaches do not even touch this topic. They assume that you should have
your FORM where CONTENT of the page. Thus killing an idea of having server
control somewhere in a header.
This did not work for me.

But someone gave this link yesterday
http://www.metabuilders.com/Tools/MasterPages.aspx

And i found it works well. Also it fixes a bug which .NET has with nested
Server controls.

It seems to be working pretty good. The only problem is that you can not use
the design mode of visual studio to change HTML.

But real programmers using Notepad anyway :)
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lol, I thought I was just too tight to purchase it...
 
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