understanding master pages

[Diego]

Hi all
I'd like to understand something about master pages:
1)Why if if try to typecast a masterpage inside a "child page" the compiler
tells it dont find the class? I was trying to declare a property in the
master and access it from the child but the problem is not with the
property, is with the typecast of the class
2)Why both master page and child pages are declared as partial class?
3)Why the events in the Master pages are "created" by Visual Web Developer
2005 EE in the aspx page and not in the codebehind one?
Thanks, Diego

[Brock Allen]

The Master and Page get merged together in terms of their control hierarchys
but they're not related via inheritance. But you can have one access the
other as objects. In the child ASPX you want to add the directive:

<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/MasterPage.master" %>

The in your ASPX just use Page.Master.SomePublicProp to access the data form
the master.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

Hi all
I'd like to understand something about master pages:
1)Why if if try to typecast a masterpage inside a "child page" the
compiler
tells it dont find the class? I was trying to declare a property in
the
master and access it from the child but the problem is not with the
property, is with the typecast of the class
2)Why both master page and child pages are declared as partial class?
3)Why the events in the Master pages are "created" by Visual Web
Developer
2005 EE in the aspx page and not in the codebehind one?
Thanks, Diego