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I have the task of creating several one-page websites for our subsidiaries. I
would like to use the MasterPage concept with this task. The sites will all
be separate site, located in their own folder. Essentially, I would like to
know if I can create a centralized Master Page and have it apply to multiple
web sites. Kind of like using CSS to change the look and feel of all your
page, except, the external style sheet would control all the individual
websites on the IIS box.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance.
Nov 16 '06 #1
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Let's say you copy your MasterPage(s) for all the "sites" into a single
folder under your IIS. Each of your applications (sites) can then create a
virtual directory that points to that common folder, and your separate apps
can set their MasterPageFile property to point to that vRoot and the
masterpage file.
This has the additional benefit that if you decide to update a Master, all
the sites will pick up the change automatically.
Peter

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"Lucas Davenport" wrote:
I have the task of creating several one-page websites for our subsidiaries. I
would like to use the MasterPage concept with this task. The sites will all
be separate site, located in their own folder. Essentially, I would like to
know if I can create a centralized Master Page and have it apply to multiple
web sites. Kind of like using CSS to change the look and feel of all your
page, except, the external style sheet would control all the individual
websites on the IIS box.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance.
Nov 16 '06 #2

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