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A Look at ASP.NET Web Controls

ASP.NET Web controls are server-side controls that can be included in the HTML portion of an ASP.NET Web page. Web controls are declared with the following syntax:

<asp:WebControlName runat="server" Property1="Value1" Property2="Value2"
          ... PropertyN="ValueN"></asp:WebControlName>

The semantics of Web controls are identical to HTML controls'. Each Web control has a corresponding class in the .NET Framework. When the ASP.NET engine is executing an ASP.NET Web page and comes across a Web control, it creates an instance of the correct class and sets the created object's properties to the properties specified in the Web control's markup. Also, each Web control contains a RenderControl() method that, when called, produces ...