Dynamic Skins & Themes

[Michael]

Hello,

I have a website project where I created a custom ASP.Net theme with the stylebuilder.  I have all the controls using this custom theme by setting the EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" and setting Skin="mySkin". 

I would like to be able to have a combobox to dynamically change the "theme" used.  If possible I would also like to be able to switch between the standard Telerik Skins and custom themes.

I have tried in code behind using the combobox selection changed event and in case of custom theme setting EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" and setting Skin="mySkin", and in cases of default skins setting EnableEmbeddedSkins="true" and setting Skin="WebBlue" for example.  

Ive looked all over the forums and documentation and havent been able to find a tutorial to do this.  Even if it can be done just using traditional asp.net themes and avoiding the compiled themes all together that would be fine.  I would just have to create each one I wanted from the stylebuilder without changes. 

Can you lead me in the right direction?

[Dimo]

Hello Michael,

ASP.NET themes can be switched / set programmatically only in Page_PreInit. Other than that you should have no problems - when embedded skins are used, the RadControls will register all required CSS files themselves. Otherwise the non-embedded CSS files from the theme's folder will be registered by the ASP.NET framework.

Kind regards,
Dimo
the Telerik team