Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 8. Rendering

• Base Classes and Rendering

• Rendering Methods of the Control Class

• Overriding Render—The MetaTag Control Example

• HtmlTextWriter and Related Enumerations

• Rendering Methods of WebControl

• Rendering a Web Control—The HoverLabel Example

• Exercising HtmlTextWriter—The LoginUI Example

• Downlevel Rendering

In user interface programming, the term rendering generally refers to the process of drawing or painting on a screen. However, in the case of server controls, rendering refers to the process of writing markup text (such as HTML, XML, and WML) to the HTTP response stream. The server sends the generated markup text to the requesting client, such as a Web browser, where it is finally transformed into its visual representation.

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