How does DialogMaster.master is used?

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5/9/2012 12:26:45 PM

Antonio Salazar

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How is DialogMaster.master is used?

This is a very beginner question.

I need an anonymous (among other minor tweaks) Contact Form module, so I was going to copy the core Contact Form module to use as foundation. Before copying it, I was reading the source but found that I can't view "mojoPortal.Features.UI\ContactForm\MessageListDialog.aspx" in design mode, it complains that the Master Page "~/App_MasterPages/DialogMaster.Master" cannot be loaded.

The master page actually isn't in the mojoPortal.Features.UI project, but the solution as well as the individual project compile and run well.

Is this expected?

Edit: Mangled subject

5/10/2012 7:23:11 AM

Joe Audette

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Re: How does DialogMaster.master is used?

My advice is stay out of design mode in VS, it doesn't work very well. In your custom project you could solve it by making a copy of that master page in your custom project with a different namespace and that may solve the designer error but the designer is fairly useless and you should be able to ignore the designer error and only worry if you get build errors.

the dialog master page is used in mojoPortal for pages that inherit from mojoDialogBasePage similar as layout.master is used for pages that inherit from mojoBasePage.

The VS designer in general is not very usefull but is especially not useful in mojoPortal because css is loaded differently at runtime than at design time. ie it requires a runtime context to load the skin files from /Data/Sites/[SiteID]/skinname according to sitesettings.

Hope that helps,

Joe

5/10/2012 10:57:04 AM

Antonio Salazar

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Re: How does DialogMaster.master is used?

I'll copy in my custom project just to get rid of the wavy error underlines. Thanks.

5/10/2012 11:16:31 AM

Jamie E

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Re: How does DialogMaster.master is used?

About the "wavy lines", be sure to do this step:

You'll need to copy the whole pages section from the mojoportal Web.config into your project's Web.config.

From the Setting Up Your Own Projects for Custom Development document. I found that Steve Land's blog post referenced on that page is very helpful as well.

Jamie

5/10/2012 3:11:55 PM

Antonio Salazar

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Re: How does DialogMaster.master is used?

Maybe I wasn't clear about what I was doing:

I was reading the original ContactForm code to understand how to fork it. The "wavy lines" appear in the original, unmodified code, and the design mode was unusable. I was asking if this was normal for this codebase because the whole solution builds and runs fine.

Those links you referenced are awesome, though. I'm glad they're clearly available here because I don't think I would have been able to figure it on my own.

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