Microsoft® Visual C# 2005 Unleashed

Chapter 30. Developing ASP.NET Controls

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Building User Controls
• Creating Server Controls
• Managing State Within Server Controls

ASP.NET radically increases the productivity of web developers by running atop the .NET Framework and providing a large suite of powerful controls that do everything from accept simple input to display complex, interactive, data-bound grids.

Occasionally you may run into a situation where you have a need for a reusable control that isn’t already implemented by the base set of controls that ship with ASP.NET. In that case, you can use C#, object-oriented programming, and existing ASP.NET classes to create your own custom controls to extend ASP.NET’s already powerful feature set. This chapter shows you ...