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A theming engine for ASP.NET MVC 2 (video)

Get the example code shown in the video here.

I’ve wanted a way to apply custom themes in ASP.NET MVC that “just works” for awhile. Sometimes you want to apply a new theme that switches out just a few CSS elements, or changes the structure of a specific view, or the entire site. There’s no out-of-the-box way to do that, and the existing solutions I’ve seen will only solve the CSS problem, or the views problem, but not both, or they require you to duplicate your views for every theme or use exact file names rather than your own, which…

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