4. When you re happy with the way the control looks, switch to Source view. 5. Select the entire control, including the opening and closing … tags, nothing more, nothing less, as shown in the example in Figure 10-5. 6. Press Ctrl+C (or right-click and choose Copy) to copy the selected tag to the clipboard. 7. In Solution Explorer, right-click the theme file in which you want to create your skin file and choose Add New Item. 8. In the Add New Item window, choose Skin File and type a filename for the file. I d name the one I just created Textbox.skin. 9. Click the Add button. 10. Press Ctrl+V to paste the tags from the clipboard into the skin file. There may be some comments (green text) in the skin file already. That s just a large comment that you can delete. It serves no purpose other than to tell you about naming skins. 11. Delete the ID=… attribute and control name (TextBox1 in this example). If you re designing a control that has other non-stylistic attributes in its tag, those should be eliminated to. For example, when designing a generic TreeView control, you wouldn t want to define a specific Source attribute in the skin. The skin is only about visual attributes. Figure 10-6 shows how my Textbox.skin file looks after pasting in the tags, removing the green comment text, and removing the ID= Textbox1 attribute. As you can also see in the figure, this Textbox.skin file is in my DefaultSkin theme folder. Figure 10-5: A styled Textbox control s tag selected in Source view. 206 Part III: Personalization and Databases
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