User-Specified Themes

[Jonathan Wood]

If I want each user to be able to specify their own themes, does that mean I
must set the theme in an even handler (such as PreInit) for every single
page?

I suppose I could cache the user's theme in the Session object. But I
wondered if there was any shortcut to having to set the theme in the PreInit
event for every single page.

Thanks.

 

[Michael Nemtsev [MVP]]

Hello Jonathan,

yes u must

see there http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/themes/personalization.aspx

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JW> If I want each user to be able to specify their own themes, does
JW> that mean I must set the theme in an even handler (such as PreInit)
JW> for every single page?
JW>
JW> I suppose I could cache the user's theme in the Session object. But
JW> I wondered if there was any shortcut to having to set the theme in
JW> the PreInit event for every single page.
JW>
JW> Thanks.
JW>

 

[Jonathan Wood]

Thanks!

 

[Scott Roberts]

But I wondered if there was any shortcut to having to set the theme in the

PreInit event for every single page.

You can set the theme in Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute in
global.asax:

private void Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute(Object sender, EventArgs
e)
{
HttpContext CurrentContext = HttpContext.Current;
Page p = ( CurrentContext.Handler as Page );
if ( null != p )
{
p.Theme = "Default";
}
}
}

 

[Jonathan Wood]

That's cool if that will work.

One thing: my plan is to cache the user's theme in the Session object. So
this code will need to be able to access both the Session object and some
database code. I assume the database code will work but now I wonder if the
Session object will be available. I would also need to get info for the
current user, which may not be set up either.

I'll have to play around with that.

Thanks.

 

[Scott Roberts]

The Session and User are both populated and available on the CurrentContext.

 

[Jonathan Wood]

Cool. Thanks!