Re: master pages - is it just me not comfortable with them?

A common confusion about master pages is that they are thought of as a sort
of iframes rather than a sort of user controls. They are a sort of extension
of user control concept in a very convenient form.

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net


<oliharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm an experienced web developer - but haven't used master pages much.

I find that I'm not really comfortable with them - so perhaps I'm
missing something.....

When I first read about them I was shocked that the content
placeholder pages need knowledge of which master page they were in -
I'm happier now I understand they can be set dynamically - but I still
can't help thinking that they provide nothing on top of a reasonable
page/usercontrol design ....

...in fact I prefer a design where there's only ever *one* aspx page
per site - and everything else is written as UserControls (probably
loaded dynamically with LoadControl)... this gives nice
componentisation and ultimate flexibility.

I tend to work in Enterprise environments.

...I'd appreciate any comments on this.

thanks,
O.


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