Designing and Developing ASP.NET 4 Web Apps (Exam 70-519) Tutorials
Page Consistency / Understanding Skins
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Skins are something you will probably see on the exam and one or two questions or at least referenced in a way that you will have to understand the functionality of Skins or how they're set up to be able to correctly answer that question. So let's talk briefly here in this video about Skins, there's not a whole to say about them and then in a separate video, do a little Skins example so you can kind of see how they're set up and how they behave. The main thing you need to understand is that Skins are used to define the look and feel of, this is the important part right here, 1 or more Server Controls. Now a Skin is a simple text file and this is where it kind of weirds out just a little bit and if you go out there and look on Google or whatever you will find all these developers kind of debating back and forth and arguing over why would you use Skins and not just use straight CSS and that's a good question, we're not going to argue that here. You do whatever you would like but a Skin is a simple text file. Now in reality, the Cascading Style Sheet Style is really a simple text file it just has a CSS extension. The Skin is a text file that has .Skin extension alright? It contains Markup but it's not written in the CSS style that you see out there in your Site.CSS files that we've been looking at. The Markup that you use in a Skin file is similar to Tag Markup but it doesn't have the ID Attribute. In other words, you can just copy your Tags out of your code, drop them into your Skin file, take off the ID Attribute and that's your Markup alright? Then your files going to have that .Skin or .Skin extension. Now you're going to place this Skin file in the Themes folder. So whatever Theme you're wanting these Skins to work in. Now the Theme is going to apply to the entire site, the Skin is going to apply to the certain controls that you say. And again in part 2, I'm going to show you what that looks like. So that's kind of the skinny on Skins if you will. Don't you love nerd humor. And so join me in the video entitled Skins Example and I'll kind of show you one of these in real world action and if you can just keep in mind that the Skins a text file, it doesn't use standard CSS Markup, it only applies to the controls that you mention or that you place in that Skin file and you probably know what you need to know for the exam. So join me in the Skins Example video and I'll show you how one of these things actually behave out there in the programming environment.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Designing and Developing ASP.NET 4 Web Apps (Exam 70-519) |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34292 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-029-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-12-31 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 108 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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