Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide

Web Controls

You’ve seen how user controls can be easily and quickly built and used to reuse HTML and Delphi code within your Web applications. However, there are times when user controls aren’t sufficient. User controls are normally useful when you need a collection or composite of HTML and Web controls. Of course, sometimes you are going to want to create custom Web controls. This section covers building, installing, and using Web controls.

Just as user controls were analogous to developing custom TFrame descendents or user controls in WinForms, Web controls are analogous to developing descendents from TComponent in the VCL. Web controls can be installed into the Component Palette and dropped onto Web pages or user controls. In the following ...