Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to share the same content among multiple pages in an application by taking advantage of Master Pages. In the first section, you learned how to create a Master Page and apply it to multiple content pages. You also learned how to nest Master Pages and how to register a Master Page in the web configuration file.

The next section explored various techniques of modifying a Master Page from a particular content page. You learned how to use the Title attribute, how to use the Page.Header property, how to expose properties in a Master Page, and how to use the FindControl() method.

Finally, you learned how you can dynamically load different Master Pages and associate a particular Master Page with a particular content page at runtime. You learned how you can save a user's Master Page preference by using the Profile object.