SharePoint Magazine

Learn how to incorporate a master page into the SharePoint site definition. Also learn how to utilize tools such as WSPBuilder to deploy your SharePoint code through Visual Studio extensions.

This is the fith article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In this series we have discussed master pages and we have shown how to customize a master page.

This is the fourth article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In the previous article of this series we discussed how to build a customized master page in SharePoint Designer. At the end of the previous article we discussed that making the modifications directly in SharePoint Designer is not the most deployable solution for production life cycle environments.
This article will discuss using features to deploy a custom master page to the master page gallery.

This is the third article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In the previous two articles of this series we discussed master pages and how SharePoint uses them to create it’s out of the box pages. Now that we have an understanding of how master pages work and how SharePoint uses them, we can start showing how to develop custom master pages. In this article we are going to concentrate on editing master pages in SharePoint Designer.

In this article will discuss the out of the box master pages in SharePoint in order to gain an understanding of how SharePoint customized the out of the box site. We will examine the master page gallery, dynamic token replacement techniques, and the general architecture of SharePoint master pages. These same techniques will be used to build our own, customized SharePoint sites.

This is the first article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In this article we will discuss the structure and architecture of an ASP.NET Master Page. We will show ASP.NET Master Page’s basic concepts in order to gain an understanding of how the pages work. This article will lay the groundwork for the subsequent articles in this series on customizing SharePoint Master Pages.