Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 4. User Controls: From Page to Control

• Converting a Page to a User Control

• Reusable User Controls: The SiteHeader and SiteFooter Examples

• The User Control Model

• Deploying a User Control

• An Application-Specific User Control: The CruiseSelector Example

• Relative URLs in User Controls

• Programmatically Instantiating a User Control

• Caching a User Control

In this chapter, we will describe the user control model, show how to author a user control, and discuss the features of user controls. In Chapter 5, we will introduce the custom control model, and in Chapter 6, we’ll compare the two models to help you decide which one to use when developing your own ASP.NET server controls.

A user control is a server control that you author in the same WYSIWYG and declarative ...