Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5

Preface

Introduction

SERVER CONTROLS ARE AN INTEGRAL aspect of every ASP.NET application we build. They encapsulate browser appearance and server functionality in a reusable object. They can be used across multiple pages within a single ASP.NET application and across multiple ASP.NET applications. ASP.NET comes with a lot of prebuilt server controls. We have simple controls such as the label, and we have complex controls such as the GridView. We can also create our own server controls to meet a need not met by one of the existing controls by inheriting from the appropriate base class and overriding its methods as needed.

This model of using server controls to encapsulate browser appearance and server functionality has served our needs well ...