Easy Header Access in ASP.NET 2.0

I am easy to please when it comes to small and simple things that make my life as a developer easier. For example, I came accross something I had not noticed before in ASP.NET while reading a post from Dave Burke. The HtmlHead class exposed by the Page class as Page.Header. I love this. It makes it so easy to get to, and manipulate the header attributes for a page. A simple act of changing the page's title, style, etc before was a pain. Now it's just setting a few properties.

To change a page's title:

 

this.Header.Title = "This is the new page title.";

 

To add a style attribute for the page:

 

Style style = new Style();
style.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Navy;
style.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LightGray;

// Add the style to the header for the body of the page
this.Header.StyleSheet.CreateStyleRule(style, null, "body");

 

To add a stylesheet to :

 

HtmlLink link = new HtmlLink();
link.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
link.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
link.Attributes.Add("href", "~/newstyle.css");
this.Header.Controls.Add(link);

 

Simple and elegant. I guess I can finally get rid of my helper classes to do all of that and keep things simpler. Sad that I had not noticed that was there in 2.0 earlier.