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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / General / June 2007Newbie question about master page
I am building my first site with a master page (first time using VS2005) and several content pages and I have a dumb question . What determines which content page is displayed when the page first loads? How do I set this? tia ck In run time a master page doesn't have any separate existence. It is just a part of another page, similar to a user control. So you don't display a master page. You display a page that includes the master page.  SignatureEliyahu Goldin, Software Developer & Consultant Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET] http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin http://usableasp.net >I am building my first site with a master page (first time using > VS2005) and several content pages and I have a dumb question . [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > ck I understand this. But what determines what is the first content page to be displayed when site is loaded? >In run time a master page doesn't have any separate existence. It is just a >part of another page, similar to a user control. So you don't display a >master page. You display a page that includes the master page. Your app workflow and user navigation determinate the order of page loading. The point I tried to make that it has nothing to do with master pages.. Perhaps you could elaborate your question more. SignatureEliyahu Goldin, Software Developer & Consultant Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET] http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin http://usableasp.net >I understand this. But what determines what is the first content page > to be displayed when site is loaded? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>part of another page, similar to a user control. So you don't display a >>master page. You display a page that includes the master page. My site has a default.aspx, master.aspx, and six content pages. When the site loads, it loads the default page which in turns fires the master page. What determines which content page is displayed first. >Your app workflow and user navigation determinate the order of page loading. >The point I tried to make that it has nothing to do with master pages.. >Perhaps you could elaborate your question more. > My site has a default.aspx, master.aspx, and six content pages. > > When the site loads, it loads the default page which in turns fires > the master page. What determines which content page is displayed > first. See my earlier reply... default.aspx is one of the standard startup pages on IIS sites so, unless you've modified this, this will almost certainly be your site's startup page. In default.aspx, simply redirect to the content page you want to display first... Signaturehttp://www.markrae.net > In default.aspx, simply redirect to the content page you want to display > first... Just to make it clear. The whole discussion was around this point. Open a content page, not the master one. SignatureEliyahu Goldin, Software Developer & Consultant Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET] http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin http://usableasp.net >> My site has a default.aspx, master.aspx, and six content pages. >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > In default.aspx, simply redirect to the content page you want to display > first... >I understand this. But what determines what is the first content page > to be displayed when site is loaded? Whatever page you have designated as your site's startup page. Typically, this would be default.aspx in the root of the virtual directory, but it doesn't have to be... If your startup page is a content page, then it will load its associated MasterPage. As Eliyahu says, this has nothing to do with content pages / MasterPages per se... Signaturehttp://www.markrae.net >I am building my first site with a master page (first time using > VS2005) and several content pages and I have a dumb question . > > What determines which content page is displayed when the page first > loads? How do I set this? The biggest misconception about MasterPages is that they are somehow the ASP.NET equivalent of framesets - they aren't at all. In fact, a MasterPage is nothing more than a UserControl. The MasterPage doesn't control which content page to display - it's the other way round. In order to display a content page, you navigate to it just like you would a normal page e.g. Response.Redirect("MyContentPage.aspx") - the content page knows which MasterPage to use, and constructs itself accordingly... Signaturehttp://www.markrae.net
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