Comments on: How to take control of style sheets in ASP.NET Themes with the StylePlaceholder and Style control

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:44:25 +0000

Incredible! Thanks a lot for this simple but fully functional solution.

One note: In your example code to put in the Styles.skin file, I had to change ConditionCommentExpression to ConditionalCommentExpression. A simple spelling error, maybe someone is helped!

By: Mrinal Jaiswal

Mrinal Jaiswal — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:18:05 +0000

Hi Egil,

I was in need to this solution only, u made my work very eassy

Thanks,
Mrinal Jaiswal

By: Egil Hansen

Egil Hansen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:22:18 +0000

Hi Jonathan

Thanks, glad to hear it. And thanks for the headsup about the download link. ~~It seems I managed to forget the zip file on the old server. Will have to look through my backups and upload it again.~~ The download link should work again.

By: Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:24 +0000

Hi Egil,

Many thanks for providing this fantastic solution to a VERY frustrating problem at times! Just wanted to point out that your download link doesn’t work… it just reloads the article.

Cheers,
Jonathan

By: Egil Hansen

Egil Hansen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:51:59 +0000

Hi RenÃ©

You are more than welcome to use the controls. I am happy to hear somebody else finds then useful. Good luck with your project.

Regards, Egil.

By: René Kuss

René Kuss — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:46:02 +0000

Hi Egil,

i’m developing an open source application. I’ve integrated your solution into this project. I’ve added a comment on the controls that point to this article. I hope thats ok for you. If not, tell me an i’ll do it another way. The sourcecode can be found on spheria.codeplex.com.

By: Egil Hansen

Egil Hansen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:56:20 +0000

Hi Mike

I think the following should compile for you (although I have not tested it at all):

List removeCandidate = new List();
foreach(Control c in Page.Header.Controls)
{
    HtmlLink link = c as HtmlLink;
    if(link != null && link.Href.StartsWith(themePath))
    {
        removeCandidate.Add(link);
    }
}

Let me know if it works, regards, Egil.

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:38:48 +0000

I’m trying to do this using the 2.0 framework — is there a way around the LINQ query:

// find all existing stylesheets in header
var removeCandidate = Page.Header.Controls.OfType()
.Where(link => link.Href.StartsWith(themePath)).ToList();

How can I do this in 2.0?

Mike

By: Jurriaan Nijkamp

Jurriaan Nijkamp — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:17:21 +0000

Very nice, exactly what I needed. I used a method with a VirtualPathProvider before, but that doesn’t work with precompiled websites. Thanks!

By: Tim McCurdy

Tim McCurdy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:56:06 +0000

This solution actually…rocks! I took your control and modified it slightly so that the “Style” class is no longer deriving from “Control” so it makes the markup cleaner (it gets rid of the “ID” and “runat” attributes of each Style tag). I think I will start using this from now on!

One thing to note, if you’re running your website after creating a custom control like this, and for some reason all your Breakpoints don’t get hit and the page is rendered blank, follow these steps (it took forever to figure this out):
1.) Stop the web application
2.) Go into the Page where you have you custom control and simply click the “Design” view.

Visual Studio will now show you all the errors that is causing your site not to parse. It won’t show you these same errors anywhere during run-time!