How to create a new web form which inherites from a base web form

[Terence]

This may be a simple question but I am learning, and would very much appreciated for suggestions.

Usually we make all pages of a web site having a common appearance, say, fixed frame areas, headers and footers etc. Of course in .NET we implement every page with a web form. But how can I draw a standard, base webform with some fixed wordings, controls, links etc so that all other pages look the same to it. I guess inheritance should be a proper choice, but I can't find a wizard feature like the "window form" project where we can add "inherited window form".

I know that we can define a class with inheritance from System.Web.UI.Page, then we can build new pages by inheritating from this BasePage.

Coding as follows:

Namespace MyPages
Public Class BasePage
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

Public Function Whatever()
....Function Goes Here
End Function
End Class
End Namespace

However, this gives me a new class only, not a aspx file and there is no designer associated with it so that I cannot easily add in controls by dragging and dropping from the toolbox.

What would be a proper way to create a new web form from a base web form ?

[Cander]

I believe you want pagelets


see my reply here
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=165236

[Terence]

Hi, Chris,

Thanks for your suggestion. I also found a very good article about the subject at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ercontrols.asp

I just wonder why Microsoft leaves us to do the manual editing to remove the html tag etc for conversion and not offer an menu choice like inheriting a window form to do the job.

Regards.