Summary

The quicker you realize that nearly all the different server controls act and react in similar ways, the quicker you'll master developing in ASP.NET. Of course, when you start getting under the covers of some of the controls, you'll see some major differences, but that's a topic for a different book!

This chapter described some of ASP.NET's new server controls, how to implement each one, how to capture events, and how to bind the controls to a data source. Specifically, I discussed the following ASP.NET server controls:

  • Button

  • TextBox

  • DropDownList

  • ListBox

  • CheckBox

  • CheckBoxList

  • RadioButton

  • RadioButtonList

Chapter 9 will cover using ASP.NET's validation controls to make sure that data collected in a Web form is accurate before you insert it into ...

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