Creating Themes
| You create a Theme by adding a new folder to a special folder in your application named App_Themes. Each folder that you add to the App_Themes folder represents a different Theme. If the App_Themes folder doesn't exist in your application, then you can create it. It must be located in the root of your application. Visual Web Developer Note When using Visual Web Developer, you can create a new Theme folder by right-clicking the name of your project in the Solution Explorer window and selecting Add ASP.NET Folder, Theme. A Theme folder can contain a variety of different types of files, including images and text files. You also can organize the contents of a Theme folder by adding multiple subfolders to a Theme folder. The most important types of files in a Theme folder are the following:
In the following sections, you learn how to add both Skin files and Cascading Style Sheet files to a Theme. Warning Be careful about how you name your Theme (the folder name). The contents of a Theme folder are automatically compiled in the background into a new class. So you want to be careful not to name a Theme with a class name that conflicts with an existing class name in your project. |
