Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 5. Developing a Simple Custom Control

• Server Control Overview

• A Trivial Server Control Example

• Compiling and Deploying a Server Control

• Exposing a Property: The PrimeGenerator Control Example

• Choosing the Base Class for Your Control

• Applying Design-Time Attributes

• Custom Controls in Visual Studio .NET

• Debugging a Server Control

In Chapter 4, we described declaratively authored user controls that are deployed as text files (.ascx and optional code-behind files). In this chapter, we will describe controls that are authored in code and deployed in the form of compiled class libraries. To differentiate between the two control authoring models, we will use the term custom control when referring to a control that is authored as a managed class and compiled ...