Dheeman Dutta

Hi,
Can you share a real life example.

Thanks
Ravi

Suppose you are trying to load a Masterpage explicitly using code based on some conditions , and this applies to all the pasge in your website. Using this contaring for loading master pages , you won't be able to specify the master page while adding any page in the website.

Suppose we have this class
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public class DynamicMasterPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)
{
// LoadMasterPage() loads a master page based on some criteria.
string masterFile = LoadMasterPage();
if (!masterFile.Equals(string.Empty))
{
base.MasterPageFile = masterFile;
}
base.OnPreInit(e);
}
}
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Now in order to make all pages in your website inherit from this class you need to mention the pageBaseType in the Web.Config.

>>>>

<system.web>
<pages pageBaseType="DynamicMasterPage" />
</system.web>

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Cheers

Only works with inline ASPX pages, unfortunately. VS still generates code-behind pages inheriting System.Web.UI.Page, which overrides pageBaseType. So, it is pretty useless.

http://pro-thoughts.blogspot.com/

it's not useless actually, using .net 3.5 and above I made a common basepage and every page had to override a method I created, even though the page behind will inherit from system.web.ui.page on visual studio, the compiler will complain about the lack of implementation of the abstract methods forcing that page to change it's inheritance to the type defined on web.config

inherits attribute from @Page directive overrides the pageBaseType value of web.config.
but I don't want to override it.How would I stop from overriding?