Click here to Skip to main content
15,883,647 members
Articles / Web Development / ASP.NET

Really Dynamic Master Pages

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4.10/5 (17 votes)
8 May 2012CPOL4 min read 197.8K   2.1K   77  
Creating ContentPlaceHolders and Contents programmatically
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

namespace DynamicMasterPages
{

    public partial class MasterPage : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
    {
        int num;

        public MasterPage()
        {
            object cphnum = HttpContext.Current.Session["cphnum"];
            if (cphnum == null || !(cphnum is int))
                return;
            num = (int)cphnum;
            //create the contentplaceholders to be paired with the content
            for (int i = 1; i < num + 1; i++)
                base.ContentPlaceHolders.Add("contentplaceholder" + i.ToString());
        }

        protected override void FrameworkInitialize()
        {
            //this code is required to run before the main master pages init, so a different event is used
            base.FrameworkInitialize();
      
            if (num == 0)
                return;
            //create the content just like for a page
            for (int i = 1; i < num + 1; i++)
                base.AddContentTemplate("ContentPlaceHolder" + i.ToString(), new CompiledTemplateBuilder(new BuildTemplateMethod(this.Build)));


        }

        private void Build(Control c)
        {
            Literal b = new Literal();
            b.ID = "Literal1";
            b.Text = "NestedMaster";
            c.Controls.Add(b);

            for (int i = 1; i < num + 1; i++)
            {
                ContentPlaceHolder cph = new ContentPlaceHolder();
                cph.ID = "ContentPlaceHolder" + i.ToString();
                c.Controls.Add(cph);
                //fill the content placeholders with content from content page
                //will throw NullReferenceException if content does not exist
                ((ITemplate)base.ContentTemplates["ContentPlaceHolder" + i.ToString()]).InstantiateIn(cph);
            }

        }
    }
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


Written By
Web Developer
Hungary Hungary
I'm a Hungarian developer interested mostly in web development.

Comments and Discussions