Using Themes and Skins for Personalization with Visual Basic 2005 - Using Named Skins
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You can override the theme for particular controls by using named skins.

Set the lblRadioButtonListlabel to be red even in the Deep Blue theme, by using a named skin. To accomplish this, create two Label skins in the Label.skin file within the Deep Blue folder.

  <asp:Label Runat="server"
  ForeColor="Blue" Font-Size="Large"
  Font-Bold="True" Font-Italic="True" />

  <asp:Label Runat="server" SkinID="Red"
  ForeColor="Red" Font-Size="Large"
  Font-Bold="True" Font-Italic="True" />

The first skin is the default; the second is a named skin, because it has aSkinIDproperty set toRed. Click on theRadioButtonListcontrol in Design view and set theSkinIDproperty toRed. Or, open the source for Welcome.aspx and find theRadioButtonListand add the attributeSkinID="Red":

  <asp:Label ID="lblRadioButtonList" Runat="server" Text="Radio Button List"
  SkinID="Red"/>

When you log in and set your theme to Dark Blue, you’ll find that the label for theRadioButtonListisRed, as shown in Figure 12-49. (You didn’t get stuck with a black & white book, did you?)

Figure 12-49.  RadioButtonList label is Red

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