Comments on: Customizing Application Master Pages – part 5 of 6

By: lovemossnot

lovemossnot — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:36:08 +0000

Thank you, great post…

ps: SharePoint love baby!!

By: arpug8

arpug8 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:42:32 +0000

I am having the same issues as fengji. The page object comes as null or it doesn't hit the breakpoint at all. I did deploy the assemply to GAC & updated the web.config file too. Is there anything else which I am missing?

By: fengji

fengji — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:54:05 +0000

this is very good article,

however, when I follow all the instruction and run VS debugging model by attaching to W3WP process, I have the following issues

1. page always return to null from HttpContext.Current.Handler

2. VS doesn't always catch the code hitting when IE is launched

any suggestions will be very appreciated

thanks,

Michael

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:45:23 +0000

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By: httprab

httprab — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:26:52 +0000

http://rabbitmaomao.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F9…

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:05:43 +0000

I used your http module concept and it seemed to work great. But now I am noticing an object failing to initialize error when using the people picker. The validate user check throws a javascript error too.

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:19:49 +0000

That is an interesting question Manu. In the reference I gave to the Microsoft “suggestions” on how to customize the application master page (which I do not support), they say that one way is to modify the file in the 12 hive. In my mind, that should void the warranty because you are not suppose to modify 12 hive files.
So, the approach I am suggesting is to avoid doing that. Thus, I believe this is a safter approach to still stay in the guidelines of your SharePoint warranty. Because, you are not modifying anything out of the box, you are leveraging the code to change the master page.
Anyways, I don't know of any official statement from Microsoft about this, but I think this is the safest approach to modify the application master while still staying in the guidelines of how Micorosoft tells us we can customize SharePoint.

By: manu

manu — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:08:42 +0000

Hi Greg,
Will such customization void warranty on MOSS?

Regards,
Manu

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:27:29 +0000

I've spent the the past 2 months architecting and preparing for our Moss implementation. To this point, I've relied on a custom theme/css because of this issue alone. This is by far the best solution I've seen for addressing this headache. Thank you for posting this article.

By: SP Techie

SP Techie — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:46:28 +0000

Excellent Article and your whole series of 6 Part is very nice…. But one concern for current article had you find any work around to apply master pages on applications if one have SSP and SP Server on same webapplication….

By: Oskar Austegard

Oskar Austegard — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:44:40 +0000

Some issues with search controls on application.master:

Their OnPrerender events register search.js, which overrides the ShoWhideGroups JS function used on ViewEdit pages (that one was fun to debug…)

They apparently may break Workflows: http://clintcherry.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!AEC…

By: Dhawal Mehta

Dhawal Mehta — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:51:55 +0000

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the such a wonderfull article.

We have implemented this for our application, but it is giving us an error for some of the pages
-on the people.aspx
-it also give us the errors while we are trying to create new column in the lists
etc.
Appreciate your any suggestions.

Thanks,
Dhawal

By: Deepanshu

Deepanshu — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:57:29 +0000

Hi Greg,
Really good article, which I was searching.
Just one issue I have faced, when I have used Sharepoint Designer to edit the content of CustomApplication Master.

At the last I have found that this is the issue, and use Visual Studio to edit the master page.

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:00:13 +0000

Hi FArrukh,
I think you could implement the same technique as this article. Build a module that checks for that particular master page and switch it out. I haven't tried it with simple.master, but that should work just fine.

By: FArrukh

FArrukh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:13:49 +0000

Hi Greg, Very good article, as it helps me a lot. I am just trying to replace the simple.master(default master for error.aspx) with my custom master. Do you have any idea that is it possible. If yes then can you please guide me with some thing related to that.

By: panoone

panoone — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:13:17 +0000

With regards to registering the module at “Step 2 – Register the module” it's worth mentioning which particular box in the farm people should be on. As a newbie I remember tearing my hair out making changes to the config file (there are dozens and they exist in several locations) only discover it was the wrong one. Small wonder my chanegs weren't taking effect.

In the case of front-end web applications (as opposed to Central administration) the changes are made on _any_ Web Front End. SharePoint then picks these changes up and will migrate them to other front ens (if they exist). This is also true for registering safe controls or any other customisations you might need to register.

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:45:45 +0000

Hey David,
It is hard to say without more information. I don't know what line 30 and 32 are in your code. I might be able to help out, but I would need to know the exact error and what line of code it is happening on.

By: David

David — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:10:06 +0000

Thanks for the info, Ive been wanting to change these.

I do have a problem, Im not all that great with Visual Studios, and am using 2008 version

When I try to build the project, I get several errors around line 30 and 32

Unexpected character and several otheres revolving around these lines.

Do you think you can help?

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:39:37 +0000

Yes Ricl, you are correct. I don't know why I typed same server. I should have said the SSP shouldn't be on the same web application.

By: ggalipeau

ggalipeau — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:50:29 +0000

I think that would work Peter. I'll have to give it a shot. Good suggestion.