Management page theme

Question

Hi,

I am writing a workflow association form for a workflow that I have created in VS 2010.

It is all working okay, however the custom form that I create does not have the same theme as the main management page (lines between rows, wide columns, rightmost column shaded, etc).  How can I use the same templates as the system pages to get a consistent look and feel?

I tried copying sections from Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\AddWrkfl.aspx to match and including the wssuc tag prefix definition, however VS just complained because the various template files are not part of my feature/solution.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Answer 1

> however VS just complained because the various template files are not part of my feature/solution

Yup, that's the way it works... VS cannot recognize or display SharePoint linked master pages, linked JavaScript files or CSS.  If you duplicate the structure of a SharePoint application in your page, your application should still build OK and when deployed display OK.

 

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