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Custom Themes in ASP.NET MVC Updated for Preview 5

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:15:23 GMT

About two weeks ago I posted on how to Implement Custom Theme support in ASP.NET MVC. There were some breaking changes made when the Preview 5 release was released yesterday, so here's a post that contains the updated code for this new release. This is also a good example of how to create a custom ViewEngine in ASP.NET MVC Preview 5.

How To Setup Custom Theme Support In ASP.NET MVC using a Custom ViewEn

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:28:41 GMT

One option to do theming in ASP.NET MVC is to use the standard ASP.NET Theme functionality (App_Themes folder glory and all), but it just doesn't seem complete. Also, by doing that you don't get to generate completely custom HTML specific to each Theme. After all, the beauty of ASP.NET MVC is being able to completely control the HTML output of the application. So, I played around with things a bit and figured out how to create a custom ViewEngine that will allow you to create a seperate sub-folder within the Views folder for each Theme. This way you can have a completely different version of each View for each Theme, and maintain complete control over the HTML output on a per Theme basis.

Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:06:19 GMT

Have you ever seen a presentation of ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC framework? There is one particular slide that keeps coming back, stating that every step in the ASP.NET MVC life cycle is pluggable. Let's find out if replacing one of these components is actually easy by creating a custom ViewEngine and corresponding view.

Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC framework

Wed, 21 May 2008 05:33:50 GMT