ASP.NET 2.0 Master Page public properties

[Joel Reinford]

I am attempting to learn how to use Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 and am
having no success in getting the content page to see the public properties
in the master page. I am using code beside and have tried both with and
without namespace references.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on what I need to do to make the master
page public properties accessible to the content page?

Joel Reinford
Data Management Solutions LLC

 

[Guest]

Hey Joel,

The best way to understand the master pages is to assume that it is a kind
of user control. So if you try to access the variables in the master page
using page_load event of the other page (say, webform1.aspx), you will not be
successful in doing that.

What you need to do is to use, the page_init method in the webform1.aspx and
access the variables as...

Response.write(CType(Me.Master, MasterPage).VariableName)

HTH!

 

[Remy]

There was some related master pages discussion just a few days ago, I
think that might give some hints:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...?q=master+page+static&rnum=3#d325cf6b199007cb

Remy Blaettler
www.collaboral.com

 

[Joel Reinford]

Thanks Remy

This thread got me headed in the right direction. The answer is to put an
@MasterType declaration in the content pages. It has this form:
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/default.master" %>

Once that's been done, I can access the properties of the master page.

Joel Reinford
Data Management Solutions LLC