Hi all, I am rather new to skinning of the asp.net rad controls and I am having a couple problems.

First of all, I am just toying around with the tools to see what I can accomplish. I have started with a master page with a table that has looks like this.

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|          Menu          |
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|   Panel  |   Main    |
|             |             |
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Yippee for ASCII art.

Anyway the menu is a radMenu contained in a separate user control, the panel is a radPanelBar contained in a separate user control, and the main is where I am loading various other user controls. One of the things I have done is create a control to change the site’s appearance using various skins common to all controls. *** As a side note I would love to see more common skins, I only saw 6 skins that are common to every control. ***

In trying to change the skins I would update the control’s skin property and refresh the page, this caused the controls to loose all styling. A coworker had the same problem and pointed me to a solution where if I linked the appropriate style sheet on the master page then changing skins, it would work. My first question is this: Can I achieve the changing of skins without having to link the style sheet.

Now because I am having to link the style sheets I run into a confliction with the menu and panelbar. When I implemented the menu and included the style sheets for it, my panelbar began to have problems. The panel bar uses ExpandMode=”FullExpandedItem” but now appears as a bulleted list with no expanding happening. When I remove the menu style sheet references on the master page, the panel bar works as intended. My second question is if I have to link the style sheets, how do I avoid this confliction. I have tried to move the links to the menu control page but this does not work either.

I hope I have given enough information to explain my situation but I will further clarify if necessary. Thanks in advance.