One Hyperlink In Many Different Locations

I'd like to implement a hyperlink in many locations on my website, however I just want to have it defined once not several times over. What is the best way to achieve this?

I started down the road of listing it in the node of web.config but I was only able to get that to list as a literal and wasn't successful in having it end up as a hyperlink.

I don't know much about master pages, but what I do know about them seems to me that they aren't the answer for 开发者_开发百科this task because they wouldn't allow for that hyperlink to be located on some pages and not others and in different locations on some pages than others.

Help please! :)

I'm working in ASP.net VB.net

Put a HyperLink control on each page where you want it.

e.g. <asp:HyperLink runat="server" id="LogInLink">Login</asp:HyperLink>

Then either set the NavigateUrl property on the hyperlink in code-behind, e.g. this.LogInLink.NavigateUrl = Global.MySpecialUrl; or use <%=Global.MySpecialUrl%> notation to reference the value you want from your code in the NavigateUrl in the markup.

[Sorry, that's C# code]

You can create a custom control that inherits from HyperLink. This method will not require to use code-behind on individual pages but you will need to create a new class and modify your web.config file. Alter the namespaces as needed.

SpecialLink.vb

Namespace YourWebSite.Controls
 Public Class SpecialLink
  Inherits HyperLink

  Public Sub New()
   NavigateUrl = "~/SpecialLinkUri.aspx"
   Text = "Special Link Text"
  End Sub
 End Class
End Namespace

web.config (add this to the system.web node) This allows you to use this control on any page/master page/user control throughout your site

<pages>
  <controls>
   <add namespace="YourWebSite.Controls" tagPrefix="YourWebSite"/>
  </controls>
</pages>

Using it on your page

<p>This is some text, here's the link: <YourWebSite:SpecialLink></YourWebSite:SpecialLink></p>
<p>This is some text, <YourWebSite:SpecialLink>here's the link</YourWebSite:SpecialLink>.</p>