master pages

[Victor Rodriguez]

Is there a way to present just the content of a page and turn off the master
page by code?

thanks,

Victor

 

[Mark Rae]

Is there a way to present just the content of a page and turn off the
master page by code?

What on earth are you trying to do...???

 

[Kevin Jones]

In Page_PreInit you can set this.MasterPageFile = null, but if you do
that you'll get an error telling you that 'Content controls are allowed
only in content page that references master page'

So I think you're out of luck, unless you can walk the controls
heirarchy and remove the content controls.

But I'm with Mark, why would you do this?

 

[Victor Rodriguez]

I'm looking for a a way to have a page without the master in order to print
the page without all the stuff on the master. Do you have a better way for
this?

thanks,

Victor

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Victor,

What I did was create a stripped down 'printfriendly.master' page that does
away with all the regular page content.

You can hook up it up to a Print Friendly image button by passing a
querystring parameter like ?pf=1 to invoke the printer friendly master page:

protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Request["pf"] == "1")
{
Page.MasterPageFile = "printfriendly.master";
}
}

Let us know if this helps?

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for Ken's good suggestion.

Hi Victor,

I agree with Ken. MasterPage for ASP.NET 2.0 page is working like a
UserControl and it will load all the Content controls in concrete page when
the content page is loading at runtime. Therefore, a content page can not
be displayed individually without a MasterPage. However, as Ken mentioned,
ASP.NET 2.0 page can dynamically specify the MasterPage file in the
"PreInit" event, therefore, you can prepare a print friendly master page
and when the user click print button, directly him to a page which is
decorated with that print friendly master page. Do you think this a
workable solution?

here is blog article describing dynamic page layout through MasterPage:

#Recipe: Dynamic Site Layout and Style Personalization with ASP.NET
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/07/22/Recipe_3A00_-Dynamic-Site-
Layout-and-Style-Personalization-with-ASP.NET--.aspx

Hope this also helps some.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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[gerry]

or you can use a print specific .css that hides the unwanted master page
bits using display:none; and so do away with the additional master page, the
master page selection code and the print button.

 

[Victor Rodriguez]

Sounds like a great solution to me I'll try it today.

Victor

Hi Victor,

What I did was create a stripped down 'printfriendly.master' page that
does away with all the regular page content.

You can hook up it up to a Print Friendly image button by passing a
querystring parameter like ?pf=1 to invoke the printer friendly master
page:

protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Request["pf"] == "1")
{
Page.MasterPageFile = "printfriendly.master";
}
}

Let us know if this helps?

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]

I'm looking for a a way to have a page without the master in order to
print the page without all the stuff on the master. Do you have a better
way for this?

thanks,

Victor

 

[Victor Rodriguez]

Thanks for your help, one more thing, is it possible to have this routine on
a handler so that it could happen on any page without going to all the pages
and adding those lines of code?

Thanks again,

Victor

Hi Victor,

What I did was create a stripped down 'printfriendly.master' page that
does away with all the regular page content.

You can hook up it up to a Print Friendly image button by passing a
querystring parameter like ?pf=1 to invoke the printer friendly master
page:

protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Request["pf"] == "1")
{
Page.MasterPageFile = "printfriendly.master";
}
}

Let us know if this helps?

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]

I'm looking for a a way to have a page without the master in order to
print the page without all the stuff on the master. Do you have a better
way for this?

thanks,

Victor

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Victor,

Do you mean you want to put the master page selecting code into a central
place instead of spreading it in each content page? So far I can not get
any idea on using a non-page specific event handler, what I can get is
defining a base page class and override the "OnPreInit" method and
programmtically assign the "MasterPageFile" property in it according to
certain condition. e.g.:

===================
public class BasePage : Page
{
....................

protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnPreInit(e);

if (Request.QueryString["print"] == "true")
{
this.MasterPageFile = "~/Master/print.master";
}

}


}


=====================

And for our content pages which will need to apply the print friendly
master page, just derive it from our custom basepage class istead of the
default "Page" class. e.g.


===================
public partial class Concrete_printtestpage : BasePage
{
.....................
}
===============

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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