Attempting to use ASP .NET Themes with Embedded Resources.

[Allen Smothers]

Hello,

I'm attempting to utilize ASP.NET's Themes with Embedded Resources using Telerik's RadStyleSheetManager.

I'm using VS 2008, IIS 6

Can this be done?  If so, do you a resource on how to go about do it?

As I'm setting up my embedded resources via http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/radstylesheetmanager.html is there a way to globally set EnableEmbeddedSkins="False" for all my custom skinned Telerik controls?  I'm unsure how to get it to work with the simpler .skin file.  I am able to get it to work perfectly when I set EnableEmbeddedSkins="False" on each control individually.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Allen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi Allen Smothers,

Yes, there is a way to globally set the EnableEmbeddedSkins property for all RadControls on your project:

<appSettings>
  <!-- Disables the embedded skins for all RadControls -->
  <add key="Telerik.EnableEmbeddedSkins" value="false"/>
  <add key="Telerik.EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet" value="false"/>
</appSettings>

If you need to globally disable the embedded skins for a particular RadControl add these lines in the web.config file:

<appSettings>
<!-- Disables the embedded skins for RadMenu instances -->
   <add key="Telerik.Menu.EnableEmbeddedSkins" value="false"/>
   <add key="Telerik.Menu.EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet" value="false"/>
</appSettings>

More information is available at the bottom half of this article.

All the best,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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[Allen Smothers]

I see now.  Thanks for the help.

Say I had a custom theme selector on my application where clients could choose their own theme, how would I set up my embedded resources file to accomplish this?

Thanks again for your help!

-Allen

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello Allen Smothers,

I suppose that the controls in each theme will have a Skin property set. So, changing the Theme you change the Skin. Am I missing something?

Regards,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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[parag]

Hi,

I have similar issue. I plan to have few themes defined in an assembly (one folder per theme containing resources(css , images) and .skin file in it).Inside .skin file I will set Skin property for each control type. I will mark all resources (css,.skin,images) as embedded resources. I want to use stylesheetmanager to load them. Can I use standard  ASP.Net theme mechanism to change theme?
Regards
Parag

[Kate]

Hello Parag,

Here you can find more detailed explanation on how you can use the RadStyleSheetManager and include a custom stylesheet as a WebResources in the RadStyleSheetManager.

Best wishes,
Kate
the Telerik team